Acanthobothrium bullardi
| Acanthobothrium bullardi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Cestoda |
| Order: | Tetraphyllidea |
| Family: | Onchobothriidae |
| Genus: | Acanthobothrium |
| Species: | A. bullardi
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| Binomial name | |
| Acanthobothrium bullardi Ghoshroy & Caira, 2001
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Acanthobothrium bullardi is a species of parasitic onchobothriid tapeworm first found in the whiptail stingray, Dasyatis brevis, in the Gulf of California. This species of parasitic tapeworm was originally discovered alongside four other varieties of tapeworms in the Gulf of California during a survey of the area that was done in the years 1993 as well as 1996.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Fyler, Caroline A. (2009). "Systematics, biogeography and character evolution in the tapeworm genus Acanthobothrium van Beneden, 1850". Doctoral Dissertations. University of Connecticut: 1–182. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ Monks, Scott; Violante-González, Juan; Pulido-Flores, Griselda; Zaragoza-Tapia, Francisco (2019-05-06). "Two new species of Acanthobothrium Blanchard, 1848 (Onchobothriidae) in Narcine entemedor Jordan & Starks, 1895 (Narcinidae) from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico". ZooKeys (852): 1–21. Bibcode:2019ZooK..852....1Z. doi:10.3897/zookeys.852.28964. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6562051. PMID 31210739.
- ^ Ghoshroy, Sohini; Caira, Janine N. (2001). "Four new species of Acanthobothrium (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) from the whiptail stingray Dasyatis brevis in the Gulf of California, Mexico". Journal of Parasitology. 87 (2): 354–372. doi:10.1645/0022-3395(2001)087[0354:FNSOAC]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 11318566. S2CID 43915565.
Further reading
[edit]- Reyda, Florian B., and Janine N. Caira. "Five new species of Acanthobothrium (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) from Himantura uarnacoides (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) in Malaysian Borneo." Comparative Parasitology 73.1 (2006): 49–71.
- Maleki, Loghman, Masoumeh Malek, and Harry W. Palm. "Two new species of Acanthobothrium (Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae) from Pastinachus cf. sephen (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman." Folia parasitologica 60.5 (2013): 448–456.
- List, Host-Parasite, and Parasite-Host List. "Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali)."
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