Anthocephalum papefayi

Anthocephalum papefayi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Order: Rhinebothriidea
Family: Rhinobothriidae
Genus: Anthocephalum
Species: Anthocephalum papefayi
Binomial name
A. papefayi
Ruhnke, Caira & Cox, 2015

Anthocephalum papefayi is a species of flatworm. It can be differentiated by its overall size, the number of proglottids and marginal loculi, the number and arrangement of its testes, the size of its apical sucker, the arrangement and distribution of vitelline follicles, and the "muscularity" of its genital pore.[1]

References

  1. Ruhnke, Timothy R., Janine N. Caira, and Allison Cox. "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." Zootaxa 3904.1 (2015): 051-081.

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