Nybelinia Poche, 1926

Palm, Harry W. & Walter, Thorsten, 2000, Tentaculariid cestodes (Trypanorhyncha) from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Zoosystema 22 (4), pp. 641-666 : 661

Genus Nybelinia Poche, 1926

TYPE SPECIES.— Tetrarhynchus lingualis Cuvier, 1817 . SPECIES INCLUDED.— N. africana Dollfus, 1960 (synonym N. perideraeus [Shipley & Hornell, 1906]); N. aequidentata (Shipley and Hornell, 1906) ; N. anguillae Yamaguti, 1952 ; N. anthicosum Heinz & Dailey, 1974 ; N. basimegacantha Carvajal, Campbell & Cornford, 1976 ; N. bengalensis Reimer, 1980 ; N. erythraea Dollfus, 1960 (species synonymy discussed above); N. gopalai Chandra & Hanumantha Rao, 1985 ; N. goreensis Dollfus, 1960 ; N. indica Chandra, 1986 (species synonomy with N. scoliodoni discussed in Palm 1999); N. jayapaulazariahi Reimer, 1980 ; N. lingualis (Cuvier, 1817) (synonyms N. infulata [Molin, 1858] and N. punctatissima Dollfus, 1960 , others see Dollfus [1942]); N. manazo Yamaguti, 1952 ; N. pintneri Yamaguti, 1934 ; N. queenslandensis Jones & Beveridge, 1998 ; N. riseri Dollfus, 1960 ; N. sakanariae Palm, 1999 ; N. schmidti Palm, 1999 ; N. scoliodoni (Vijayalakshmi, Vijayalakshmi & Gangadharam, 1996) ; N. sphyrnae Yamaguti, 1952 ; N. strongyla Dollfus, 1960 ; N. surmenicola Okada, 1929 ; N. syngenes (Pintner, 1929) ; N. thyrsites Korotaeva, 1971 .

DEFINITION

Trypanorhynchs with the characters of the Tentaculariidae Poche, 1926 . Scolex compact, four triangular bothridia, with hook-like microtriches along bothridial borders and filamentous microtriches on remainder of bothridia and scolex. Posterior margins of bothridia fused with peduncle. Four tentacles of variable length and width, armed with hooks; metabasal tentacular armature homeoacanthous with homeomorphous hooks. Basal hooks homeomorphous or heteromorphous, characteristic basal armature absent or present. Retractor muscle originates at base of bulbs. Proglottids acraspedote or craspedote, cirrus unarmed, genital pores alternate irregularly (24 species).