Biology:Anthocephalum meadowsi

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Short description: Species of flatworm

Anthocephalum meadowsi
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Order: Rhinebothriidea
Family: Rhinobothriidae
Genus: Anthocephalum
Species:
A. meadowsi
Binomial name
Anthocephalum meadowsi
Ruhnke, Caira & Cox, 2015

Anthocephalum meadowsi is a species of flatworms. 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.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q28431903 entry