Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda

Phyllobothriidea Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach, Olson & Littlewood, 2014

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chimaerocestidae Williams & Bray, 1984
Phyllobothriidae Braun, 1900

Literature

original description	Caira, J. N.; Jensen, K.; Waeschenbach, A.; Olson, P. D.; Littlewood, D. T. J. (2014). Orders out of chaos – molecular phylogenetics reveals the complexity of shark and stingray tapeworm relationships. International Journal for Parasitology. 44(1): 55-73.
additional source	Ruhnke, T. R., Caira, J. N., Pickering, M. (2017). Phyllobothriidea Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach, Olson & Littlewood, 2014. 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. 305-326.