Name - Scalithrium Ball, Neifar & Euzet 2003

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urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1624377 [metadata]

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Original Description Reference

• Description of Scalithrium n. gen. (Cestoda, Tetraphyllidea), with Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) n. comb., a parasite of Dasyatis pastinaca (Elasmobranchii, Dasyatidae), as type species. Parasite, 10(1), Mars 2003: 31-37. [Zoological Record Volume 139]

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Recent Publications

• Description of Scalithrium n. gen. (Cestoda, Tetraphyllidea), with Scalithrium minimum (Van Beneden, 1850) n. comb., a parasite of Dasyatis pastinaca (Elasmobranchii, Dasyatidae), as type species.
• Proposal for a new tapeworm order, Rhinebothriidea.
• Tapeworms of elasmobranchs (part III). A monograph on the Phyllobothriidae (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda).
• The cestode order Rhinebothriidea no longer family-less: A molecular phylogenetic investigation with erection of two new families and description of eight new species of Anthocephalum.
• Two new species of Scalithrium (Cestoda: Rhinebothriidea) from rajiform batoids of the Argentine Sea.

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