WoRMS name details
Scolex pleuronectis Müller, 1788
105328 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105328)
uncertain (larval name)
Species
- Subspecies Scolex pleuronectis bilocularis Müller, 1788 (larval name)
marine, fresh
Not documented
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence, south slope of Anticosti Island, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti...
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]
WoRMS (2025). Scolex pleuronectis Müller, 1788. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105328 on 2025-12-19
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 146-149 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
context source (Bermuda)
Rees, G. (1969). Cestodes from Bermuda fishes and an account of Acompsocephalum tortum (Linton, 1905) gen. nov. from the Lizard Fish Synodus intermedius (Agassiz). Parasitology, 59: 519-548 [details]
context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France.</em> 463 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Polyakova, T. A. (2020). Fish cestodes of the Karadag nature reserve and adjacent water areas of the Black Sea. <em>Marine Biological Journal.</em> 5(1): 50-63., available online at https://doi.org/10.21072/mbj.2020.05.1.06 [details]
additional source Bellal, A., Tazi, N. A. B., Charane, M., Hadjou, Z. (2018). Gastrointestinal helminth parasites of Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Perciformes Sparidae) in the Western Mediterranean Sea. <em>Biodiversity Journal.</em> 9 (1): 9–18. [details]
additional source Kornyychuk, Y.; Polyakova, T.; Pronkina, N. (2022). New data on pipefishes' and seahorse's endohelminths off Crimean coasts of the Black Sea. <em>Helminthologia.</em> 59(1): 74-82., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2022-0006 [details]
context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France.</em> 463 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Polyakova, T. A. (2020). Fish cestodes of the Karadag nature reserve and adjacent water areas of the Black Sea. <em>Marine Biological Journal.</em> 5(1): 50-63., available online at https://doi.org/10.21072/mbj.2020.05.1.06 [details]
additional source Bellal, A., Tazi, N. A. B., Charane, M., Hadjou, Z. (2018). Gastrointestinal helminth parasites of Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Perciformes Sparidae) in the Western Mediterranean Sea. <em>Biodiversity Journal.</em> 9 (1): 9–18. [details]
additional source Kornyychuk, Y.; Polyakova, T.; Pronkina, N. (2022). New data on pipefishes' and seahorse's endohelminths off Crimean coasts of the Black Sea. <em>Helminthologia.</em> 59(1): 74-82., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2022-0006 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
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]
Remark Larval name [details]
