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Acanthobothrium bullardi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Platyhelminthes

Rank
  
Species

Subclass
  
Eucestoda

Family
  
Onchobothriidae

Genus
  
Acanthobothrium

Order
  
Tetraphyllidea

Similar
  
Tetraphyllidea, Diamond stingray, Dasyatis, Stingrays

Acanthobothrium bullardi is a species of parasitic onchobothriid tapeworm first found in the whiptail stingray, Dasyatis brevis, in the Gulf of California. It is relatively small, possesses few segments, relatively few testes, and shows asymmetrical ovaries. It also differs from its cogenerate species by its hook size and length of its hook prongs; cirrus sac size; the position of its genital pore, the number of testes columns that are anterior to the cirrus sac; as well as a number of postvaginal testes.

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Acanthobothrium bullardi Wikipedia