Species Scyphophyllidium rodmani (Ruhnke & Carpenter, 2008)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paraorygmatobothrium rodmani Ruhnke, T.R. & Carpenter, S.D. 2008. Two new species of Paraorygmatobothrium Ruhnke, 1994 (Tetraphyllidea: Phyllobothriidae) from the smooth-hound Mustelus mustelus (L.) and the gummy shark M. antarcticus Günther (Carchariniformes: Triakidae). Systematic Parasitology 71: 213-222 [217].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G230361, Port Albert, Vic [38°40'S 146°41'E].
  Paratype(s) QM G230362; QM 100854; LRP 4185-8.

  Type host:

   Mustelus antacticus (Günther, 1870) [TRIAKIDAE] Gummy shark

Generic Combinations

• Scyphophyllidium rodmani (Ruhnke & Carpenter, 2008). —
  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

Distribution

States

Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Mustelus antacticus (Günther, 1870) [TRIAKIDAE] Gummy Shark (definitive host)).

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