Genus Tetrarhynchobothrium Diesing, 1854

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tetrarhynchobothrium Diesing, K.M. 1854. Ueber eine naturgemässe Verteilung der Cephalocotyleen. Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 13(Abt. I): 555-616 [576].

  Type species:

   Tetrarhynchobothrium tenuicolle Diesing, 1854 by original designation.

 

Introduction

Tetrarhynchobothrium was placed in the Tetrarhynchobothriidae by Campbell & Beveridge (1994), but subsequent phylogenetic analyses led Caira & Jensen (2017) to move the genus to the Eutetrarhynchidae.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast, S Gulfs coast

General References

Caira, J.N. & Jensen, K. (eds.) 2017. Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008–2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. Lawrence, KS, USA : University of Kansas, Natural History Museum Vol. Special Publication No. 25.

Campbell, R.A. & Beveridge, I. 1994. Order Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863. pp. 51-148 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.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-May-2023	CESTODA	21-Apr-2023	MODIFIED
06-Feb-2014	CESTODA	06-Feb-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)