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Based on a light- and scanning electron microscopical study of scolex morphology, tentacles and surface structures of 31 trypanorhynch species, an alternative classification of the trypanorhynch cestodes, adults, plerocerci and postlarvae, is presented. The arrangement of the tentacular armature is no longer used as a distinguishing feature for four different superfamilies. Instead, the presence or absence of ciliated pits and prebulbular organs is used to define three superfamilies: Tentacularioidea Poche, 1926; Otobothrioidea Dollfus, 1942; and Eutetrarhynchoidea Guiart, 1927. A total of 12 families are defined by the characters: the presence/absence of blastocysts, the number of bothridia and the reduction of the rhyncheal apparatus, together with a new character, complete rows of tentacular hooks (homeoacanth and heteroacanth typica) versus rows of hooks partly reduced (heteroacanth atypica and poeciloacanth). Of the 19 families previously accepted, 10 are retained (Eutetrarhynchidae, Gilquiniidae, Lacistorhynchidae, Mixodigmatidae, Otobothriidae, Paranybeliniidae, Pterobothriidae, Shirleyrhynchidae, Sphyriocephalidae and Tentaculariidae, all sensu nov.); one family is reinstated (i.e. Aporhynchidae Poche, 1926 sensu nov.) and a new one is added (i.e. Pseudotobothriidae n. fam.). Advantages of this alternative classification of trypanorhynch cestodes are: (i) the resolution of incongruities and questions caused by the use of the tentacular armature to distinguish superfamilies; (ii) the criteria for the establishment of higher taxa, superfamilies and families are clearly defined; (iii) with the findings of new species with different character combinations, this system can be enlarged up to 4 superfamilies and 48 families without loosing its stability; and (iv) all existing genera are easily re-assigned to the superfamilies and families.
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Palm, H.W. An alternative classification of trypanorhynch cestodes considering the tentacular armature as being of limited importance. Syst Parasitol 37, 81–92 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005765126294
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