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Ligula (flatworm)

Ligula is a genus of flatworm.

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Ligula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Order: Diphyllobothriidea
Family: Diphyllobothriidae
Genus: Ligula
Bloch, 17821
Synonyms1
  • Braunia Leon, 1908
  • Diagramma Fuhrmann, 1928
  • Digramma Cholodkovsky, 1914
  • Legula Huber, 1896
  • Leguli Stiles & Tayler, 1902
  • Lingula Latreille, 1804

Ligula is a genus of flatworm.1

There are ten species assigned to this genus:1

  • Ligula alternans Rudolphi, 1810
  • Ligula avium Bloch, 1782
  • Ligula colymbi Zeder, 1803
  • Ligula digramma Creplin, 1839
  • Ligula interrupta Rudolphi, 1810
  • Ligula intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Gmelin, 1790
  • Ligula monogramma Creplin, 1839
  • Ligula nemachili (Dubinina, 1957) Kuchta & Scholz, 2017
  • Ligula pancerii Polonio, 1860
  • Ligula pavlovskii Dubinina, 1959
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