Family PROTEOCEPHALIDAE La Rue, 1911

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Introduction

The currently documented Australian fauna comprises 15 species from amphibians and reptiles. None is known from fishes in Australia, although overseas proteocephalidean cestodes are most abundant in freshwater fishes. Australian members of the genus Ophiotaenia La Rue, 1911 form a monophyletic lineage for which de Chambrier et al. (2018) proposed the new genus Australophiotaenia.

The taxonomic arrangement used here follows Rego (1994) and de Chambrier et al. (2018).

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Misidentifications

PROTEOCEPHALIDAE: Ophiotaenia [Australian species placed into the genus Australophiotaenia de Chambrier et al (2018).] — de Chambrier, A., Beveridge, I. & Scholz, T. 2018. Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) of the Australian reptiles: hidden diversity of strictly host-specific parasites. Zootaxa 4461(4): 477-498

General References

La Rue, G.R. 1911. A revision of the cestode family Proteocephalidae. Zoologischer Anzeiger 38: 373-482

Rego, A.A. 1994. Order Proteocephalidea Mola, 1928. pp. 257-293 in Khalil, L.F., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. (eds). Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Vertebrates. Wallingford, UK : Commonwealth Agriculture Bureaux International 751 pp.

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