Proteocephalus

	Proteocephalus ''Proteocephalus'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Proteocephalidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: * ''Proteocephalus aberrans'' Brooks, 1978 * ''Proteocephalus abscisus ''Proteocephalus'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Proteocephalidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: * ''Proteocephalus aberrans ''Proteocephalus'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Proteocepha ...'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q18581185 Platyhelminthes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Proteocephalidae Proteocephalidae is a diverse family tapeworms with nearly 300 recognized species in 66 genera and 13 subfamilies, whose species are found in every continent. They are mainly parasites of siluriforms and other freshwater fishes, but also parasitize reptiles and amphibians. A typical proteocephalid life cycles include planktonic crustaceans, and small fish as intermediate hosts. Subfamilies and Genera * Family Proteocephalidae Subfamily Acanthotaeniinae Freze, 1963 * ''Acanthotaenia'' von Linstow, 1903. Contains some 8 species of cestodes described from monitor lizards of the genus '' Varanus'' from India, Australia and the Philippines. As well as, ''Acanthotaenia'' ''overstreeti'' Brooks & Schmidt, 1978 from the rhinoceros iguana (''Cyclura cornuta''); Puerto Rico, and ''Acanthotaenia'' pythonis Wahid, 1968 described from a green tree python (''Morelia viridis'') at the London Zoo. * ''Australotaenia'' de Chambrier & de Chambrier, 2010. Contains 3 species that parasitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Proteocephalus Aberrans ''Proteocephalus'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Proteocephalidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext .... Species: * '' Proteocephalus aberrans'' Brooks, 1978 * '' Proteocephalus abscisus'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q18581185 Platyhelminthes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Proteocephalus Abscisus ''Proteocephalus'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Proteocephalidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: * ''Proteocephalus aberrans ''Proteocephalus'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Proteocephalidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of ...'' Brooks, 1978 * '' Proteocephalus abscisus'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q18581185 Platyhelminthes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flatworms The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates. Unlike other bilaterians, they are acoelomates (having no body cavity), and have no specialized circulatory and respiratory organs, which restricts them to having flattened shapes that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through their bodies by diffusion. The digestive cavity has only one opening for both ingestion (intake of nutrients) and egestion (removal of undigested wastes); as a result, the food cannot be processed continuously. In traditional medicinal texts, Platyhelminthes are divided into Turbellaria, which are mostly non-parasitic animals such as planarians, and three entirely parasitic groups: Cestoda, Trematoda and Monogenea; however, since the turbellarians have since been proven not to be mono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cosmopolitan Distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The extreme opposite of a cosmopolitan species is an endemic one, being found only in a single geographical location. Qualification The caveat “in appropriate habitat” is used to qualify the term "cosmopolitan distribution", excluding in most instances polar regions, extreme altitudes, oceans, deserts, or small, isolated islands. For example, the housefly is highly cosmopolitan, yet is neither oceanic nor polar in its distribution. Related terms and concepts The term pandemism also is in use, but not all authors are consistent in the sense in which they use the term; some speak of pandemism mainly in referring to diseases and pandemics, and some as a term intermediate between endemism and cosmopolitanism, in effect regarding pandemism as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]