Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) of Australian reptiles: hidden diversity of strictly host-specific parasites Chambrier, Alain De Beveridge, Ian Scholz, Tomáš Zootaxa 2018 2018-08-23 4461 4 477 498 Chambrier & Beveridge & Scholz, 2018 Chambrier & Beveridge & Scholz 2018 [151,384,865,891] Cestoda Proteocephalidae Australophiotaenia GBIF Animalia Proteocephalidea 18 478 Platyhelminthes genus gen. nov.   Host.Northern black snake  Pseudechis australis(Gray)( Ophidia: Elapidae).   Distribution. Australia( Queensland).   Material studied.None.   Remarks. Johnston (1912)reported  Proteocephalussp. from  P. australisfrom Eidsvold, Burnett River, Queensland, stating it is not conspecific with  P. gallardi(=  A. gallardi), but assumed it is the identical species as that reported as  Ichthyotaeniasp. by Johnston (1910)from Denisonia superba. However, the same author ( Johnston, 1913) assigned all tapeworms to  P. gallardi(see also de Chambrier & de Chambrier, 2010). No voucher material is known to exist.