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WoRMS taxon details

Eucestoda

AphiaID

104909 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104909)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subclass

Parent

Cestoda

Direct children (20)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Order Bothriocephalidea
Order Caryophyllidea
Order Cathetocephalidea
Order Cyclophyllidea
Order Diphyllidea
Order Diphyllobothriidea
Order Haplobothriidea
Order Lecanicephalidea
Order Litobothriidea
Order Nippotaeniidea
Order Onchoproteocephalidea
Order Phyllobothriidea
Order Rhinebothriidea
Order Spathebothriidea
Order Tetrabothriidea
Order Tetraphyllidea
Order Trypanorhyncha
Order Proteocephalidea accepted as Onchoproteocephalidea (Change in conception.)
Order Pseudophyllidea accepted as Diphyllobothriidea (or Bothriocephalidea)
Order Eucestoda incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2026). Eucestoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104909 on 2026-03-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bray, Rod

2018-10-15 14:41:01Z

changed

Artois, Tom

2019-01-22 21:17:12Z

changed

Artois, Tom

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Nomenclature

basis of record Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 146-149 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. Neotropical Helminthology. 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors