Diandrya

Diandrya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Order: Cyclophyllidea
Family: Anoplocephalidae
Genus: Diandrya
Darrah, 1930
Type species
Diandrya composita
Darrah, 1930
Species

Diandrya composita
Diandrya vancouverensis

Diandrya is a genus of cestode parasites that are known from marmots (Marmota spp.) in North America. The species Diandrya composita, described along with the genus by J. G. Darrah in 1930, is known from all North American marmots except the woodchuck (M. monax). The species D. vancouverensis, described by T. F. Mace and C. D. Shepard in 1981, is only known from the Vancouver marmot (M. vancouverensis), an island endemic on Vancouver Island.[1][2]

References

  1. Nagorsen, D. W. (27 February 1987). "Marmota vancouverensis" (PDF). Mammalian Species. American Society of Mammalogists. 270: 1–5. doi:10.2307/3503862.
  2. Rausch, R. L. (1980). "Redescription of Diandrya composita Darrah, 1930 (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) from Nearctic Marmots (Rodentia: Sciuridae) and the Relationships of the Genus Diandrya emend." (PDF). Proc. Helminthol. Soc. Wash. 47 (2): 157–164. ISSN 0018-0130.
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