Kotorella Euzet & Radujkovic, 1989

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

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5402565

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5477904

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Kotorella Euzet & Radujkovic, 1989
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Genus Kotorella Euzet & Radujkovic, 1989 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES.— Rhynchobothrium pronosomum Stossich, 1901 .

SPECIES INCLUDED.— Kotorella pronosoma (Stossich, 1901) (synonyms Nybelinia herdmani [Shipley & Hornell, 1906], N. narinari [MacCallum, 1917], N. rhynchobatus Yang et al., 1995 , others see Palm & Walter [1999]).

DEFINITION

Trypanorhynchs with the characters of the Tentaculariidae Poche, 1926 . Scolex compact, four elongated spaced bothridia, with hook-like microtriches along the bothridial borders and filamentous microtriches on the rest of the bothridia and scolex. Posterior margins of bothridia free and not fused with the peduncle. Four tentacles emerging from scolex; metabasal tentacular armature homeoacanthous with heteromorphous hooks on different tentacle surfaces. Basal hooks heteromorphous, characteristic basal armature absent. Retractor muscle originates at base of bulbs. Strobila acraspedote, cirrus unarmed, Genital pores lateral, alternate irregularly, in the middle of proglottids or slightly pre-equatorial.

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