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Taenia Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1059440

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Tenia Linnaeus, 1758
		Multiceps Goeze, 1782
		Taeniarhynchus Weinland, 1858
		Fossor Honess, 1937
		Tetratirotaenia Abuladze, 1964
		Monordotaenia Little, 1967
		Fimbriotaenia Kornyushin & Sharpilo, 1986
	Common Name(s):

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2023

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Protostomia
	Superphylum	Spiralia
	Phylum	Platyhelminthes Minot, 1876 – flatworms, plathelminthes, platodes, platelminte
	Subphylum	Rhabditophora Ehlers, 1985
	Infraphylum	Trepaxonemata
	Superclass	Euneoophora
	Class	Acentrosomata
	Subclass	Bothrioneodermata
	Infraclass	Neodermata
	Order	Cyclophyllidea
	Family	Taeniidae
	Subfamily	Taeniinae Stiles, 1896
	Genus	Taenia Linnaeus, 1758
		Direct Children:
	Species	Taenia acinonyxi Ortlepp, 1938
	Species	Taenia arctos Haukisalmi, Lavikainen, Laaksonen & Meri, 2011
	Species	Taenia brauni Setti, 1897
	Species	Taenia caixuepengi Fan et al., 2014
	Species	Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800)
	Species	Taenia crocutae Mettrick & Beverly-Burton, 1961
	Species	Taenia dinniki Jones & Khalil, 1984
	Species	Taenia endothoracica (Kirschenblatt, 1948)
	Species	Taenia glomerata (Railliet & Henry, 1915)
	Species	Taenia gonyamai Ortlepp, 1938
	Species	Taenia hyaenae Baer, 1924
	Species	Taenia hydatigena Pallas, 1766 – thin-necked bladderworm
	Species	Taenia ingwei Ortlepp, 1938
	Species	Taenia jaipurensis Sharma et al., 1983
	Species	Taenia kotlani Murai et al., 1993
	Species	Taenia krabbei Moniez, 1879
	Species	Taenia laticollis Rudolphi, 1819
	Species	Taenia lynciscapreoli Haukisalmi, Konyaev, Lavikainen, Isomursu & Nakao, 2016
	Species	Taenia macrocystis (Diesing, 1850)
	Species	Taenia madoquae Jones et al., 1988
	Species	Taenia martis (Zeder, 1803)
	Species	Taenia multiceps Leske, 1780
	Species	Taenia olngojinei Dinnik & Sachs, 1969
	Species	Taenia omissa L�he, 1910
	Species	Taenia ovis (Cobbold, 1869) – sheep measles
	Species	Taenia parenchymatosa Pushmenkov, 1945
	Species	Taenia pencei Rausch, 2003
	Species	Taenia pisiformis (Goeze, 1782)
	Species	Taenia polyacantha Leuckart, 1856
	Species	Taenia pseudolaticollis Verster, 1969
	Species	Taenia regis Baer, 1923
	Species	Taenia retracta von Linstow, 1903
	Species	Taenia rileyi Loewen, 1929
	Species	Taenia saginata Goeze, 1782 – cattle tapeworm, beef tapeworm
	Species	Taenia saigoni Le-Van-Hoa, 1964
	Species	Taenia selousi Mettrick, 1962
	Species	Taenia serialis (Gervais, 1845)
	Species	Taenia simbae Dinnik & Sachs, 1972
	Species	Taenia solium Linnaeus, 1758 – pork tapeworm, pig tapeworm
	Species	Taenia suihominis Mathison, Bradbury & Pritt, 2021
	Species	Taenia talicei Dollfus, 1960
	Species	Taenia taxidiensis Skinker, 1935
	Species	Taenia tianguangfui Fan et al., 2014
	Species	Taenia twitchelli Schwartz, 1924

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	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Caira, Janine N., and Kirsten Jensen, eds.
	Publication Date:	2017
	Article/Chapter Title:	Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Special Publication, no. 25
	Page(s):	1-463
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	ISBN/ISSN:	0-89338-002-4
	Notes:	Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24421
	Reference for:	Taenia

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Mathison, Blaine A., and Sarah G. H. Sapp
	Publication Date:	2021
	Article/Chapter Title:	An annotated checklist of the eukaryotic parasites of humans, exclusive of fungi and algae
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	ZooKeys, vol. 1069
	Page(s):	1-313
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	ISBN/ISSN:	1313-2970
	Notes:	doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1069.67403
	Reference for:	Taenia

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Verster, Anna
	Publication Date:	1969
	Article/Chapter Title:	A taxonomic revision of the genus Taenia Linnaeus, 1758 s. str.
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 36, no. 1
	Page(s):	3-58
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