Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta et al., 2008 (Order): The Broad Tapeworms
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32873/unl.dc.ciap022" target="_blank" >10.32873/unl.dc.ciap022</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta et al., 2008 (Order): The Broad Tapeworms
Original language description
The cestode order Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008 includes parasites of frogs in Africa, monitor lizards and snakes in the tropics, and fish-eating birds and mammals (including humans) worldwide (Kuchta and Scholz, 2017). The number of species that infect humans are relatively few and infections are usually asymptomatic or without serious effects on human health in the case of adult cestodes (diphyllobothriosis, and exceptionally spirometrosis). In contrast, larvae (plerocercoids) of species of Spirometra may cause a serious disease called sparganosis and plerocercoids of Ligula intestinalis can castrate fish intermediate hosts and larvae of another species maturing in birds, Schistocephalus solidus, and change the behavior of sticklebacks (Williams and Jones, 1994, Barber et al., 2000, Kuchta et al., 2015). The greatest number of species of diphyllobothriideans occurs in marine mammals, mainly in pinnipeds and cetaceans (Scholz et al., 2019). These parasites, commonly known as broad tapeworms (because they have wide segments), are among the largest helminths on the Earth and species from whales can reach more than 30 m in total length (Yurakhno, 1992). The number of nominal species exceeds 150, but only 60 species in 18 genera are considered to be valid (Kuchta and Scholz, 2017, Scholz et al., 2019)
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40301 - Veterinary science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Concepts in Animal Parasitology
ISBN
978-1-60962-306-7
Number of pages of the result
8
Pages from-to
289-296
Number of pages of the book
863
Publisher name
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Place of publication
Lincoln
UT code for WoS chapter
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