Litobothrium amsichensis

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Taenia saginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Order: Litobothriidea
Family: Litobothriidae
Genus: Litobothrium
Species: L. amsichensis
Binomial name
Litobothrium amsichensis
Caira & Runkle, 1993

Litobothrium amsichensis is a tapeworm from the family Litobothridae.

This species was first described (along with Marsupiobothrium gobelinus) from a specimen collected from the spiral valve digestive organ of a goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) caught in New South Wales in Australia.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Caira, J. N.; L. S. Runkle (October 1993). "Two new tapeworms from the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni off Australia". Systematic Parasitology 26 (2): 81–90. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/BF. ISSN 1573-5192 00009215. 
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