Species Scyphophyllidium orectolobi (Butler, 1987)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phyllobothrium orectolobi Butler, S.A. 1987. Taxonomy of some tetraphyllidean cestodes from elasmobranch fishes. Australian Journal of Zoology 35: 343-371 [348].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM GL4617, Moreton Bay, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM GL4618-20, Moreton Bay, QLD.

  Type host:

   Orectolobus maculatus (Bonnaterre, 1788) [ORECTOLOBIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Scyphophyllidium orectolobi (Butler, 1987). —
  Caira, J.N., Jensen, K., Hayes, C. & Ruhnke, T.R. 2020. Insights from new cestodes of the crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Lamniformes: Pseudocarchariidae), prompt expansion of Scyphyophyllidum and formal synonymization of seven phyllobothriidean genera – at last!. Journal of Helminthology 94(e132): 1–25
• Paraorygmatobothrium orectolobi (Butler, 1987). —
  Ruhnke, T.R. 2011. Tapeworms of elasmobranchs (Part III). A monograph on the Phyllobothriidae (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 25: 205 pp.

Distribution

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Orectolobus maculatus (Bonnaterre, 1788) [ORECTOLOBIDAE] Spotted Wobbegong (definitive host)).

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