Species Stoibocephalum koenneckorum (Jensen, 2005)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tylocephalum koenneckorum Jensen, K. 2005. Tapeworms of Elasmobranchs (Part 1). A monograph of the Lecanicephalidea (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 18: 1-241 [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G222924, east of Wessel Islands, Arafura Sea, NT.
  Paratype(s) QM G222925-30, east of Wessel Islands, Arafura Sea, NT; USNPC 94582, east of Wessel Islands, Arafura Sea, NT; KUNHM 002126-8, east of Wessel Islands, Arafura Sea, NT; LRP 3331-3336, east of Wessel Islands, Arafura Sea, NT.

  Type host:

   Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley, 1939 [RHINIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Stoibocephalum koenneckorum (Jensen, 2005). —
  Jensen, K., Caira, J.N., Cielocha, J.J., Littlewood, D.T.J. & Waeschenbach, A. 2016. When proglottids and scoleces conflict: phylogenetic relationships and a family-level classification of the Lecanicephalidea (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). International Journal for Parasitology 46: 291-310 [305]

Distribution

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: N coast

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley, 1939 [RHINIDAE] Whitespotted Guitarfish (definitive host)).

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