Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Bothriocephalidea > Family Bothriocephalidae > Genus Bothriocephalus

Bothriocephalus scorpii (Müller, 1776) Cooper, 1917

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bothriocephalus*	Rudolphi, 1808	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Taenia punctatus*	Rudolphi, 1802	objective synonym
*Bothriocephalus punctatus*	(Rudolphi, 1802)	synonym
*Taenia scorpii*	Müller, 1776	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Polish: bruzdogłowiec

Literature

basis of record	Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 146-149
additional source	Polyakova, T. A. (2020). Fish cestodes of the Karadag nature reserve and adjacent water areas of the Black Sea. Marine Biological Journal. 5(1): 50-63.
additional source	Gordeev, I. I.; Sokolov, S. G. (2023). Helminths of epipelagic fish in the western Bering Sea and southern Sea of Okhotsk. Invertebrate Zoology. 20(2): 140-152.
additional source	Kuchta, R., Scholz, T. (2017). Bothriocephalidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008. In Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from ther Bowels of the Earth. J.N. Caira, K. Jensen (eds) University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Special Publication No. 25, Lawrence, KS, USA, pp. 29-45.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128.
additional source	Hamerlynck, O.; Geets, A.; Van Damme, P. (1989). The parasites of two sympatric gobies Pomatoschistus minutus and P. lozanoi in the Belgian coastal waters. In Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.): Invertebraten van België = Invertébrés de Belgique: Verhandelingen van het Symposium "Invertebraten van België" = Comptes rendus du Symposium "Invertébrés de Belgique" = Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". Brussel, 25-26 november 1988. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussel, Belgium. 27-30.
redescription	Sobecka, E.; Więcaszek, B.; Eljasik, P.; Panicz, R. (2023). Parasitological and molecular identification of cestode Bothriocephalus scorpii sensu stricto in the new host Chelidonichthys lucerna (L. 1758) (Triglidae, Scorpaenoidei) from the North Sea. The European Zoological Journal. 90(2): 726-732.