Calliobothrium
Sign in to saveCalliobothrium is a genus of cestodes in the order Tetraphyllidea. Most, or possibly all, of the known species are parasites found within the intestines of members of the shark family Triakidae. It is known that in some instances at least two different species of Calliobothrium can parasitise the same species of shark.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPlatyhelminthes
- ClassCestoda
- OrderTetraphyllidea
- FamilyCalliobothriidae
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Calliobothrium is a genus of cestodes in the order Tetraphyllidea. Most, or possibly all, of the known species are parasites found within the intestines of members of the shark family Triakidae. It is known that in some instances at least two different species of Calliobothrium can parasitise the same species of shark.
==Species== Calliobothrium australis Ostrowski de Nunez, 1973 Calliobothrium cisloi Bernot & Caira, 2017 Calliobothrium corollatum Monticelli, 1887 Calliobothrium creeveyae Butler, 1987 Calliobothrium euzeti Bernot, Caira & Pickering, 2015 Calliobothrium nodosum Yoshida, 1917 Calliobothrium shirozame Kurashima, Shimizu, Mano, Ogawa & Fujita, 2014 Calliobothrium tylotocephalum Alexander, 1963 Calliobothrium verticillatum (Rudolphi, 1819) Calliobothrium whitemanorum Bernot & Caira, 2017