Three new genera of rhinebothriidean cestodes from stingrays in Southeast Asia.

Three genera of rhinebothriideans, previously referred to as New genus 1, New genus 2 and New genus 4, are erected in the the Anthocephaliidae. New genus 1 is established as Divaricobothrium gen. n.

A new genus of rhinebothriidean cestodes from batoid elasmobranchs, with the description of five new species and two new combinations.

Survey work of batoid elasmobranchs in the eastern Atlantic and Indo-Pacific revealed multiple species of a new genus of cestode. Stillabothrium Healy et Reyda gen. n.

A new genus and species of cestode (Rhinebothriidea) from Mobula kuhlii (Rajiformes: Mobulidae) from Malaysian Borneo.

The cestode fauna of the shortfin devilray, Mobula kuhlii (Müller & Henle, 1841) was examined for the first time. The work resulted in the discovery of a new genus and species of rhinebothriidean tapeworm. Crassuseptum pietrafacei, n.

Proposal for a new tapeworm order, Rhinebothriidea.

The polyphyletic nature of the tapeworm order Tetraphyllidea Carus, 1863 is addressed in part with the establishment of the new order Rhinebothriidea for a subset of the taxa formerly comprising the phyllobothriid subfamily Rhinebothriinae (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda). Support for the order comes from Bayesian, maximum likelihood, and parsimony analyses of complete ssrDNA and partial (D1-D3) lsrDNA sequence data for 58 cestode species. These data consisted of novel data generated for 40 species in 15 genera of candidate rhinebothriines and the cathetocephalidean species Sanguilevator yearsleyi as well as comparable data taken from GenBank for an additional 18 cestode species in 17 genera.

Three new species of Rhinebothrium (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) from the freshwater whipray, Himantura chaophraya, in Malaysian Borneo.

Three new Rhinebothrium Linton, 1890 species, R. kinabatanganensis n. sp.

Two new species of Paraorygmatobothrium (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) from weasel sharks (Carcharhiniformes: Hemigaleidae) of Australia and Borneo.

Two new species of Paraorygmatobothrium Ruhnke, 1994, P. janineae n. sp.

A revision of Platybothrium Linton, 1890 (Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae), with a phylogenetic analysis and comments on host-parasite associations.

A revision of Platybothrium Linton, 1890 is presented, based on available type and voucher material, as well as extensive new collections from elasmobranchs belonging to the Carcharhinidae (requiem sharks) and Sphyrnidae (hammerhead sharks). All 10 nominal Platybothrium species are treated or redescribed herein. Four of these 10 nominal species, in addition to one former member of Dicranobothrium Euzet, 1953, are considered valid members of Platybothrium.