Hymenolepis tualatinensis

Hymenolepis tualatinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Order: Cyclophyllidea
Family: Hymenolepididae
Genus: Hymenolepis
Species: H. tualatinensis
Binomial name
Hymenolepis tualatinensis

Hymenolepis tualatinensis a parasitic cestode (tapeworm), in the genus Hymenolepis. It was originally described in 1985 from the gastrointestinal tract of the Camas pocket gopher (Thomomys bulbivorus).[1][2][3]

References

  1. Gardner, Scott Lyell (June 1985). "Helminth parasites of Thomomys bulbivorus (Richardson) (Rodentia: Geomyidae), with the description of a new species of Hymenolepis (Cestoda)". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 63 (6): 1463–1469. doi:10.1139/z85-219.
  2. Verts, B. J.; Carraway, Leslie N. (27 February 1987). "Thomomys bulbivorus" (PDF). Mammalian Species (273): 3. doi:10.2307/3504014.
  3. Mark A. Suckow; Karla A. Stevens; Ronald P. Wilson (2012). The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents. Academic Press. p. 1123. ISBN 978-0-12-380920-9.
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