Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Onchoproteocephalidea > Family Proteocephalidae > Subfamily Proteocephalinae > Genus Proteocephalus

Proteocephalus torulosus (Batsch, 1786) Nufer, 1905

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Proteocephalus*	Weinland, 1858	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Taenia torulosus*	Batsch, 1786	objective synonym
*Taenia torulosa*	Batsch, 1786	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Kedra, M. (2010). A Checklist of marine species occurring in Polish marine waters, compiled in the framework of the PESI EU FP7 project.
additional source	Ghosh, A.; Sreeraj, C. R. (2023). Fauna of India Checklist: Platyhelminthes. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 49 pp.
additional source	Scholz, T.; Choudhury, A.; Reyda, F. (2021). The Proteocephalus species-aggregate (Cestoda) in cyprinoids, pike, eel, smelt and cavefish of the Nearctic region (North America): diversity, host associations and distribution. Systematic Parasitology.
additional source	de Chambrier, A.; Scholz, T.; Mariaux, J.; Kuchta, R. (2017). Onchoproteocephalidea I Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach, Olson & Littlewood, 2014. In: Caira, J. N.; Jensen, K. Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008–2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. The University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publication No. 25. Lawrence, Kansas. pp. 251-277.
additional source	Scholz, T.; Hanzelová, V.; Králová, I.; Griffiths, D. (1998). Synonymy of shape Proteocephalus pollanicola Gresson, 1952 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae), a parasite of pollan, shape Coregonus autumnalis pollan, with shape P. exiguus La Rue, 1911. Systematic Parasitology. 40(1): 35-41.
additional source	Mhaisen, F.T. & A.R. Al-Rubaie. (2016). Checklists of parasites of farm fishes of Babylon Province, Iraq. Journal of Parasitology Research. 2016:1-16. 7170534. Epub.