Family PROTEOCEPHALIDAE La Rue, 1911
Introduction
The currently documented Australian fauna comprises eight species from amphibians and reptiles. None is known from fishes in Australia, although overseas proteocephalidean cestodes are most abundant in freshwater fishes.
The taxonomic arrangement used here follows Rego (1994).
General References
Rego, A.A. 1994. Order Proteocephalidea Mola, 1928. pp. 257-293 in Khalil, L.F., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. (eds). Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Vertebrates. Wallingford, UK : Commonwealth Agriculture Bureaux International