Name - Litobothrium Dailey 1969

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1051529 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Litobothrium

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Original Description Reference

• Litobothrium alopias and L. coniformis, two new cestodes representing a new order from elasmo-branch fishes. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 36 1969: 218-224. [Zoological Record Volume 106]

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Recent Publications

• Two new tapeworms from the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni off Australia.
• Helminth parasites of fishes from the Arabian Gulf 7. On Eniochobothrium qatarense sp. nov. (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) and the affinities of Eniochobothrium Shipley and Hornell, 1906, Litobothrium Dailey, 1969 and Renyxa Kurochkin and Slankis, 1973.
• Two new species of Litobothrium Dailey, 1969 (Cestoda: Litobothriidea) from thresher sharks in the Gulf of California, Mexico, with redescriptions of two species in the genus.
• Litobothrium alopias and L. coniformis, two new cestodes representing a new order from elasmo-branch fishes.
• An enigmatic new tapeworm, Litobothrium aenigmaticum, sp nov (Platyhelminthes : Cestoda: Litobothriidea), from the pelagic thresher shark with comments on development of known Litobothrium species.

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