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Ruhnke, Caira & Carpenter. (2006). Orectolobicestus n. g. (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea), with the description of five new species and the transfer of Phyllobothrium chiloscyllii to the new genus. Systematic Parasitology. 65(3): 215-233.
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Ruhnke, Caira & Carpenter
2006
Orectolobicestus n. g. (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea), with the description of five new species and the transfer of Phyllobothrium chiloscyllii to the new genus
Systematic Parasitology
65(3): 215-233
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Orectolobicestus n. g. (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) is erected for six cestode species parasitising bamboo sharks (Orectolobiformes: Chiloscyllium). Members of this genus differ from all other phyllobothriid genera in possessing modified maisiform spinitriches on their distal bothridial surfaces. In addition, they are easily recognised in that they share the following unique combination of characters: their vitelline fields are interrupted by the ovary, their necks are scutellate, and their bothridia bear an apical sucker and marginal loculi. Five new species of Orectolobicestus are described, including O. tyleri n. sp. from Chiloscyllium punctatum off Borneo, O. lorettae n. sp. from C. cf. punctatum off Australia, O. mukahensis n. sp. and O. kelleyae n. sp. from C. indicum off Borneo, and O. randyi n.sp. from C. hasselti also from off Borneo. In addition, Phyllobothrium chiloscyllii Subhapradha, 1955 is transferred to the new genus. O. chiloscyllii (Subhapradha, 1955) n. comb. is readily distinguished from all five new species in its greater total length. In addition to a number of proglottid features, O.␣kelleyae n. sp. and O. randyi n. sp. clearly differ from the other three new species in their possession of trifid, rather than fully serrate, spinitriches on their proximal bothridial surfaces. The latter two species conspicuously differ from one another in total number of proglottids (11–21 vs 27–38). O. tyleri n. sp. generally has fewer proglottids than O. lorrettae n. sp. (7–17 vs 13–23) and, like O. mukahensis n. sp., possesses scutes that are spathate rather than elongate. O. tyleri n. sp. is readily distinguished from O. mukahensis n. sp. in its possession of fewer proglottids (7–17 vs. 19–29). The five new species of Orectolobicestus share derived bothridial microthrix features with Phyllobothrium squali Yamaguti, 1952, Thysanocephalum sp., Orygmatobothrium sp., Ruhnkecestus Caira & Durkin, 2006 and species of Paraorygmatobothrium Ruhnke, 1994. Among these taxa, Orectolobicestus most closely resembles Paraorygmatobothrium and Ruhnkecestus in its vitelline fields being interrupted by the ovary and the possession of a scutellate neck.
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Coral Sea for Orectolobicestus lorettae Ruhnke, Caira & Carpenter, 2006 
Malaysian part of the South China Sea for Orectolobicestus kelleyae Ruhnke, Caira & Carpenter, 2006 
Malaysian part of the South China Sea for Orectolobicestus mukahensis Ruhnke, Caira & Carpenter, 2006 
Malaysian part of the South China Sea for Orectolobicestus randyi Ruhnke, Caira & Carpenter, 2006 
Malaysian part of the South China Sea for Orectolobicestus tyleri Ruhnke, Caira & Carpenter, 2006