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Taxonomic study of twoProteocephalus secies (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) parasitising coregonid fishes: the synonymy ofP. fallax La Rue, 1911 withP. exiguus La Rue, 1911

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Type-specimens (syntypes) and comparative material of twoProteocephalus species,P. exiguus La Rue, 1911 andP. fallax La Rue, 1911, parasitic in coregonid fishes from the Holarctic Region, were evaluated taxonomically. Morphological and biometrical study revealed conspecificity of the taxa.P. fallax is therefore, considered to be a synonym ofP. exiguus. Supplementary information is added to the species diagnosis ofP. exiguus and a lectotype is designated herein.

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  1. Institute of Parasitology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia

    Tomáš Scholz

  2. Helminthological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dukelských hrdinov 3, 040 01, Košice, Czechoslovakia

    Vladimíra Hanzelová

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Scholz, T., Hanzelová, V. Taxonomic study of twoProteocephalus secies (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) parasitising coregonid fishes: the synonymy ofP. fallax La Rue, 1911 withP. exiguus La Rue, 1911. Syst Parasitol 27, 1–12 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02185663

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