Schistocephalus

Schistocephalus
Drawing of the life cycle of Schistocephalus solidus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Order:	Diphyllobothriidea
Family:	Diphyllobothriidae
Genus:	Schistocephalus Creplin, 1829

Schistocephalus is a genus of tapeworm of fish, fish-eating birds and rodents.

Diversity

Three species of Schistocephalus have been described;[1]

Schistocephalus	S. cotti Chubb, 2006 S. pungitii Dubinina, 1959 S. solidus (Müller, 1776)

References

1. Chubb, J.C.; Seppälä, T.; Lüscher, A.; Milinski, M.; Valtonen, E.T. (2006). "Schistocephalus cotti n. sp. (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) plerocercoids from bullheads Cottus gobio L. in an Arctic river in Finland, with a key to the plerocercoids of the Palaearctic species of the genus". Systematic Parasitology. 65 (2): 161–170. doi:10.1007/s11230-006-9047-5. PMID 16944267. S2CID 6046469.