Family TENTACULARIIDAE Poche, 1926
Introduction
The Tentaculariidae are characterised by the presence of four bothridia and an homeoacanthous tentacular armature (Campbell & Beveridge 1994). Both Nybelinia and Tentacularia are cosmopolitan in their distribution (Dollfus 1942) and these and four other genera occur in Australia (Beveridge & Campbell 1996), represented by 22 species. As with most families of the order, adult cestodes occur in the intestinal tract of elasmobranchs while the larval stages, in this case, post-larvae, are found in the body cavities of teleosts.
General References
Beveridge, I. & Campbell, R.A. 1996. New records and descriptions of trypanorhynch cestodes from Australian fishes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 1-22
Campbell, R.A. & Beveridge, I. 1994. Order Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863. pp. 51-148 in Khalil, L.F., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. (eds). Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Vertebrates. Wallingford, UK : Commonwealth Agriculture Bureaux International 751 pp.
Dollfus, R.-Ph. 1942. Etudes critiques sur les tétrarhynques du Museum de Paris. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 19: 1-466