WoRMS taxon details
Polypocephalus elongatus (Southwell, 1912) Jensen, 2005
516400 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:516400)
accepted
Species
Parataenia elongatus Southwell, 1912 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine
(of Parataenia elongatus Southwell, 1912) Southwell, T. (1912). A description of ten new species of Cestode parasites from marine fishes of Ceylon, with notes on other Cestodes from the same region. <em>Ceylon Marine Biological Reports.</em> 6: 259–278.
page(s): 273 [details]
page(s): 273 [details]
Type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
WoRMS (2026). Polypocephalus elongatus (Southwell, 1912) Jensen, 2005. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=516400 on 2026-01-19
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Parataenia elongatus Southwell, 1912) Southwell, T. (1912). A description of ten new species of Cestode parasites from marine fishes of Ceylon, with notes on other Cestodes from the same region. <em>Ceylon Marine Biological Reports.</em> 6: 259–278.
page(s): 273 [details]
new combination reference Jensen, K. (2005). A monograph on the Lecanicephalidea (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda). <em>Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum.</em> 18: 1-241. [details]
page(s): 273 [details]
new combination reference Jensen, K. (2005). A monograph on the Lecanicephalidea (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda). <em>Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum.</em> 18: 1-241. [details]
Other
additional source
Jensen, K., Cielocha, J. J., Herzog, K. S., Caira, J. N. (2017). Lecanicephalidea Hyman, 1951. <em>In Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth.</em> J. N. Caira & K. Jensen (eds). University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Special Publication No. 25, KS, USA, pp. 207-229. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
