NOAA National Benthic Inventory

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Kingdom: Animalia
Rank: Genus

Taxonomic Status

Current Standing: valid
Credibility Rating: TWG standards met
Global Species Completeness: complete
Latest Record Review: 2017

Taxonomic Heirarchy

  Superfamily - Eutetrarhynchoidea
  Suborder - Trypanobatoida
  Order - Trypanorhyncha
  Subclass - Eucestoda
  Class - Cestoda
  Subphylum - Neodermata
  Phylum - Platyhelminthes
  Superphylum - Platyzoa
  Infrakingdom - Protostomia
  Subkingdom - Bilateria
  Kingdom - Animalia

      Direct Children

      Species - Mecistobothrium myliobati
      Species - Mecistobothrium brevispine
      Species - Mecistobothrium johnstonei
      Species - Mecistobothrium oblongum
      Species - Mecistobothrium pauciortesticulatum
      Species - Mecistobothrium penaeus