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Australophiotaenia Chambrier & Beveridge & Scholz 2018
Description
Australophiotaenia sp. 8
Host. Blue-bellied black snake, Pseudechis guttatus De Vis, 1905 (Ophidia: Elapidae).
Distribution. Australia (Queensland).
Material studied. One specimen with scolex (two whole-mounted slide and six cross sections) from Dalby, Queensland (27°11'49''S 151° 15' 57''E), 17.01.1935 (BMNH 1936.3.31.31-40).
Remarks. The specimen is in poor state of preservation and does not allow reliable morphological description. It s characterised by a scolex 475 wide and 250 long, without an apical organ, 61–67 testes in two narrow lateral bands, a high ratio of the ovary width to the width of the proglottid (68–83%), a genital pore situated anteriorly (34–45%), and the absence of egg clusters.
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
- BMNH
- Event date
- 1935-01-17
- Family
- Proteocephalidae
- Genus
- Australophiotaenia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Proteocephalidea
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Scientific name authorship
- Chambrier & Beveridge & Scholz
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Verbatim event date
- 1935-01-17
- Taxonomic concept label
- Australophiotaenia Chambrier, 2018 sec. Chambrier, Beveridge & Scholz, 2018