Heteronybelinia Palm, 1999

Palm, Harry W. & Walter, Thorsten, 2000, Tentaculariid cestodes (Trypanorhyncha) from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Zoosystema 22 (4), pp. 641-666 : 662

Genus Heteronybelinia Palm, 1999

TYPE SPECIES.— Nybelinia estigmena Dollfus, 1960 .

SPECIES INCLUDED.— H. elongata (Shah & Bilqees, 1979) ; H. estigmena (Dollfus, 1960) (synonyms H. alloiotica [Dollfus, 1960], H. cadenati [Dollfus, 1960]; H. senegalensis [Dollfus, 1960], H. punctatissima [in Dollfus 1960], N. oodes Dollfus, 1960 ); H. eureia (Dollfus, 1960) ; H. heteromorphi Palm, 1999 ; H. minima Palm, 1999 ; H. nipponica (Yamaguti, 1952) (synonym Heteronybelinia rougetcampanae [Dollfus, 1960]); H. palliata (Linton, 1924) ; H. perideraeus (Shipley & Hornell, 1906) ; H. robusta (Linton, 1890) ; H. yamagutii (Dollfus, 1960) .

DEFINITION

Trypanorhynchs with the characters of the Tentaculariidae Poche, 1926 . Scolex compact, four triangular bothridia, with hook-like microtriches along the bothridial borders and filamentous microtriches on the rest of the bothridia and the scolex. Posterior margins of bothridia fused with peduncle. Four tentacles of variable length and width, armed with hooks; metabasal tentacular armature homeoacanthous with heteromorphous hooks on different tentacle surfaces. Basal hooks heteromorphous, characteristic basal armature absent or present. Retractor muscle originates at base of bulbs. Proglottids acraspedote or craspedote, cirrus unarmed, genital pores alternate irregularly (10 species).