Species Scyphophyllidium taylori (Cutmore, Bennett & Cribb, 2009)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paraorygmatobothrium taylori Cutmore, S.C., Bennett, M.B. & Cribb, T.H. 2009. Paraorygmatobothrium taylori n. sp. (Tetraphyllidea: Phyllobothriidae) from the Australian weasel shark Hemigaleus australiensis White, Last & Compagno (Carcharhiniformes: Hemigaleidae). Systematic Parasitology 74(1): 49-58.

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G 231303, St Helena Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [27°22'S 153°11'E].
  Paratype(s) QM G 231304-7.

  Type host:

   Hemigaleus australiensis White, Last & Compagno, 2005 [HEMIGALEIDAE] Australian weasel shark

Generic Combinations

• Scyphophyllidium taylori (Cutmore, Bennett & Cribb, 2009). —
  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

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Hemigaleus australiensis White, Last & Compagno, 2005 [HEMIGALEIDAE] Australian Weasel Shark (definitive host)).

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