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Scolex pleuronectis Müller, 1788 
AphiaID: 105328

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Platyhelminthes (Phylum) > Cestoda (Class) > Eucestoda (Subclass) > Tetraphyllidea (Order) > Tetraphyllidea incertae sedis (Family) > Scolex (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (larval name)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Scolex Müller, 1787
Sources  basis of record: Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 146-149 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (Ed.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp. [details]

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Subspecies Scolex pleuronectis bilocularis Müller, 1788 (unaccepted, larval name)
Environment marine
Distribution Flemish Banks [details]
Middelkerke [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To PESI
Notes  Larval name [details]

Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence, south slope of Anticosti Island, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel), upper Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone off Sept- Iles), Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), lower St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen Islands (from the eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands), lower North Shore; western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of NL. [details]

Habitat: endoparasite [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105328
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bray, Rod
2010-09-13 09:35:26Z  changed  Bray, Rod
  
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  Citation: Bray, R. (2013). Scolex pleuronectis Müller, 1788. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105328 on 2013-06-20
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