• Ditrachybothridium Rees, G. 1959. Ditrachybothridium macrocephalum gen.nov., sp. nov., a cestode from some elasmobranch fishes. Parasitology 49: 191-209 [206].

  Type species:

   Ditrachybothridium macrocephalum Rees, 1959 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Tas. Coast

History of changes

• Ditrachybothridium piliformis Faliex, E, Tyler, G. & Euzet, L. 2000. A new species of Ditrachybothridium (Cestoda: Diphyllidea) from Galeus sp. (Selachii, Scyliorhinidae) from the south Pacific Ocean, with a revision of the diagnosis of the order, family, and genus and notes on descriptive terminology of microtriches. Journal of Parasitology 86: 1078-1084.

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 820 HF 69 C IX, Vanuatu.
  Paratype(s) MNHP 820HF 70-71 C IX, Vanuatu; BMNH 1999.10.6.1-2, Vanuatu; USNPC 89166, Vanuatu; HWML 15150.

  Type host:

   Galeus sp. [SCYLIORHINIDAE]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Apristurus sp. [SCYLIORHINIDAE] (definitive)).

General References

Tyler, G.A. 2006. A monograph on the Diphyllidea (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 20: 1-142 [19] (Australian record)

History of changes