Galapagos Species Database
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Tetrabothrius minor
Cestodo tetrabothrius menor
Found in 1914
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Class
Cestoda
Order
Tetrabothriidea
Family
Tetrabothriidae
Genus
Tetrabothrius
Species
minor
Taxon category: Accepted
Bothridiotaenia eroslris var minor Loennberg, 1893; Tetrabothrius monticelli Furhmann, 1899; T. strangulatus Baylis, 1914; T. minutus Szpotanska, 1917.
Origin: Native
- Baylis, H.A. (1914) On a new cestode from an albatross. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1914: 407–413.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Tetrabothrius minor", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18803. Accessed 12 April 2026.