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Cestoda
| Description | Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). Most of the species—and the best-known—are those in the subclass Eucestoda; they are ribbon-like worms as adults, known as tapeworms. Their bodies consist of many similar units, known as proglottids, which are essentially packages of eggs which are regularly shed into the environment to infect other organisms. Species of the other subclass, Cestodaria, are mainly fish parasites. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestoda, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Platyhelminthes : Cestoda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Cestoda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Tapeworms, Bandwürmer, Cestoden, Bandmaskar, Cestodes, Lintwormen, 条虫 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestoda |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Amphilinidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Bothriocephalidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Caryophyllidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cathetocephalidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cyclophyllidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Diphyllidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Diphyllobothriidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Gyrocotylidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Haplobothriidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lecanicephalidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Litobothriidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nippotaeniidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Onchoproteocephalidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Phyllobothriidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Rhinebothriidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Spathebothriidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Tetrabothriidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Tetraphyllidea order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Trypanorhyncha order | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ballianiidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Monticelliidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Trilocularidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cercocystis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Dibothrium genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Fuhrmanniella genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Guptaia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Maccallumiella genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Notobothrium genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Prosthecocotyle genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Pseudobothrium genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Tetrathyridium genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cavaerhynchus foveatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cetorinicola acanthocapax species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cysticercoides menidiae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Dollfuslepis grisegenicus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Fellococestus mobulae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Fimbriassacculus africanensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Mackiewiczus etowanum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Mackiewiczus rarus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Proemotogothrium southwelli species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Pseudeubothroides lepidocybii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Quadcuspidobothium francisi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Rhoptobothrium chongi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Rhoptobothrium gambangi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Rhoptobothrium limae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scyphopyllidium uruguayense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Tinitus labrycephalus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Tinitus lunulatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Caira, Janine N., and Kirsten Jensen, eds., 2017: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Special Publication, no. 25. 1-463. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Jones, A., Bray, R.A., Khalil, L.F. (1994). Key to the orders of the Cestoda. In: Khalil, L.F., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. [Editors]. Keys to the cestode parasites of vertebrates. Wallingford: CAB International, 1-2. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Waeschenbach, A.; Webster, B. L.; Bray, R. A.; Littlewood, D. (2007). Added resolution among ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with complete small and large subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45(1): 311-325. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
