Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Rhinebothriidea > Family Rhinebothriidae > Genus Scalithrium

Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Scalithrium*	Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Echeneibothrium minimum*	Van Beneden, 1850	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Jensen, K. 2009. Cestoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 487–522 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Ruhnke, T.R., Reyda, F.B., Marques, F.P.L. (2017). Rhinebothriidea Healy, Caira, Jensen, Webster & Littlewood, 2009. In Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. J. N. Caira & K. Jensen (eds). University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Special Publication No. 25, KS, USA, pp. 327-348.

Genbank

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) Ball, Neifar & Euzet, 2003. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419271