Species Bothriocephalus marginatus Krefft, 1873 (Nomen nudum)

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• Bothriocephalus marginatus Krefft, G. 1873. On Australian Entozoa, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 206-232 [paper read 1871, published 1873] [227].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G11165 Poorly preserved fragment, ?Wide Bay, Queensland.

Introduction

Type re-examined by I. Beveridge, February 2017. Consists of a poorly preserved fragment of a diphyllobothriid cestode. Could be a labeling error as ‘Bothridium pithonis’ is the only other diphyllobothriid reported in the same paper. Best considered to be a nomen nudum.

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Wallaby (Paper states that “Mr Masters who collected the specimen in some part of Queensland (Wide Bay district I believe) is of the opinion that it was taken from the intestines of a Wallaby”.)).

History of changes