Species Clistobothrium grimaldii (Moniez, 1899)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monorygma grimaldi Baylis, H.A. 1919. A remarkable Cysticercus from a rare dolphin (Cysticercus taeniae grimaldii, Moniez, 1889). Annals and Magazine of the American Museum of Natural History 9 3: 417–424.
• Taenia grimaldii Moniez, R. 1899. Sur la larve de Taenia grimaldii n. sp., parasite du dauphin. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 2: 825-827.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Atlantic Ocean.

  Type host:

   Delphinus sp. [DELPHINIDAE]

 

Generic Combinations

• Clistobothrium grimaldii (Moniez, 1899). —
  Caira. J.N., Jensen, K., Pickering, M., Ruhnke, T.R. & Gallagher, K.A. 2020. Intrigue surrounding the life-cycles of species of Clistobothrium (Cestoda: Phyllobothriidea) parasitising large pelagic sharks. International Journal for Parasitology 50: 1043–1055

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution: cosmopolitan.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 [DELPHINIDAE] Common Dolphin; Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser, 1956 [DELPHINIDAE] Fraser's Dolphin (intermediate host); Peponocephala electra (J.E. Gray, 1846) [DELPHINIDAE] Melon-headed Whale (intermediate host)).

 

Note

The status of the genus Monorygma is controversial; some authors consider M. grimaldii to be the same species as Phyllobothrium chamissonii.

 

General References

Cannon, L.R.G. 1977. Some aspects of the biology of Peponocephala electra (Cetacea: Delphinidae) II. Parasites. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 717-722 (Australian record as Phyllobothrium chamissonii Linton, 1905)

McColl, K.A. & Obendorf, D.L. 1982. Helminth parasites and associated pathology in stranded Fraser's dolphins, Lagenodelphis hosei (Fraser, 1956). Aquatic Mammals 9: 30-34 (Australian record)

Norman, J. de B. 1997. Tetraphyllidean cysticerci in the peritoneal cavity of the common dolphin. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 33: 891-895 (Australian record)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-May-2023	CESTODA	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	CESTODA	24-Apr-2023	MODIFIED
25-Jan-2022	CESTODA	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
25-Jan-2022	TETRAPHYLLIDEA Carus, 1863	20-May-2023	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
26-Nov-2015	CESTODA	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
26-Nov-2015	TETRAPHYLLIDEA Carus, 1863	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
26-Nov-2015	TETRAPHYLLIDEA Carus, 1863	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
06-Feb-2014	CESTODA	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
06-Feb-2014		20-May-2023	MODIFIED
		20-May-2023	MODIFIED