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Australophiotaenia Chambrier & Beveridge & Scholz 2018
Description
Australophiotaenia sp. 6
Host. Common death adder, Acanthophis antarticus (Shaw, 1805) (Ophidia: Elapidae).
Distribution. Australia (Western Australia).
Material studied. Two whole mounts with four pregravid proglottids (WAM 11-97) from Blanchins, Western Australia, 6.6.1996.
Remarks. Only four pregravid, partly decomposed and deformed proglottids are available. It is characterised by possessing 56-63 testes (n = 3), 12–15 uterine diverticula on each side, the width of the ovary represents 46– 51% (n = 3) of the proglottid width; However, they possess a submedian genital pore, which is unique among all proteocephalid tapeworms (see Freze, 1965; Rego, 1994; de Chambrier et al., 2017).
Notes
Published as part of Chambrier, Alain De, Beveridge, Ian & Scholz, Tomáš, 2018, Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) of Australian reptiles: hidden diversity of strictly host-specific parasites, pp. 477-498 in Zootaxa 4461 (4) on page 494, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4461.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1460246
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- WAM
- Event date
- 1996-06-06
- Family
- Proteocephalidae
- Genus
- Australophiotaenia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- WAM 11-97
- Order
- Proteocephalidea
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Scientific name authorship
- Chambrier & Beveridge & Scholz
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Verbatim event date
- 1996-06-06
- Taxonomic concept label
- Australophiotaenia Chambrier, 2018 sec. Chambrier, Beveridge & Scholz, 2018
References
- Freze, V. I. (1965) [Proteocephalata in Fish, Amphibians and Reptiles]. Essentials of Cestodology. Uol. U. Nauka, Moscow, 538 pp. [in Russian: English translation, Israel Program of Scientific Translation, 1969, Cat. No. 1853, i - v + 1 - 597]
- Rego, A. A. (1994) Order Proteocephalidea Mola, 1928. In: Khalil, L. F., Jones A. & Bray R. A. (Eds.), Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Uertebrates. CAB International, Wallingford, pp. 257 - 293.