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

Ptychobothrium belones (Dujardin, 1845) Lönnberg, 1889

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ptychobothrium*	Lönnberg, 1889	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Bothriocephalus belones*	Dujardin, 1845	synonym

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	Jensen, K. 2009. Cestoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 487–522 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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.
redescription	Châari, M.; Neifar, L. (2022). Redescription of Ptychobothrium belones (Dujardin, 1845) (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidea) from needlefishes (Beloniformes: Belonidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Systematic Parasitology.