Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Onchoproteocephalidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Subphylum: Rhabditophora
Superclassis: Neodermata
Classis: Cestoda
Subclassis: Eucestoda
Ordo: Onchoproteocephalidea

Familia: Proteocephalidae
Subfamilia: Acanthotaeniinae
Genus: Australotaenia
Species: : Australotaenia bunthangi

Name

  • Australotaenia bunthangi de Chambrier & Scholz, 2012: 280, figs 1-8
Holotype: MHNG-PLAT 75447 (one complete, whole-mounted specimen on four slides and nine slides with cross sections).
Type locality: Siem Reap (precise locality of capture of the type-host not known, because it was purchased in a local market), Cambodia.
Type host: Enhydris enhydris (Schneider) (Serpentes: Homalopsidae); total length 670 mm, examined on 16 October 2010.
Etymology: Species is named after Mr. Touch Bunthang from the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, who helped to organize sampling trip of the present authors to Cambodia in October 2010.

References

  • de Chambrier A, Scholz T., 2012: A new species of Australotaenia (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea) from a snake in Cambodia: host switching or postcyclic parasitism in a distant region? Folia parasitologica (Ceske Budejovice), 59(4): 279–86.
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