Davaineidae

Davaineidae
	SEM of Raillietina tetragona
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Order:	Cyclophyllidea
Family:	Davaineidae; Braun, 1900

Davaineidae is the name of a family of tapeworms that includes helminth parasites of vertebrates.^[1] Of the 14 genera recorded under this family, Raillietina is the best understood and most extensively studied. Members of the family are characterized by the presence of a crown (rostellum) at the tip of the scolex, and the rostellum is made up of mattock- or hammer-shaped hooks. The rostellum is surrounded by suckers which are armed with spines.^[2] These tapeworms are most commonly found in birds, and in few cases, mammals, which are the definitive hosts. Intermediate hosts are small insects such as ants.^[3] Hosts of Davainea proglottina (length 1 – 4 mm), for example, are chickens. Slugs are the intermediate hosts.^[4]

Genera

Calostaurus Sandars, 1957
Cotugnia Diamare, 1893
Davainea Blanchard, 1891
Fernandezia Lopez-Neyra, 1936
Fuhrmannetta Stiles & Orleman, 1926
Houttuynia Fuhrmann, 1920
Idiogenes Krabbe, 1868
Ophryocotyle Friis, 1870
Otiditaenia Beddard, 1912
Paroniella Fuhrmann, 1920
Paspalia Spasskaya & Spasskii, 1971
Pseudidiogenes Movsesyan, 1971
Raillietina Fuhrmann, 1920
Skrjabinia Fuhrmann, 1920

References

^ Schmidt, G.D. (1982). Cestoda. In: (Parker, S.P.) Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, vol. 1. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 807-822.
^ Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. (1994). Family Davaineidae Braun, 1900. In: (Khalil, L.F., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A., eds) Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Vertebrates. Commonwealth Agriculture Bureaux International, Wallingford, Oxon, UK, pp. 407-441. ISBN 978-0-85198-879-5
^ Yamaguti, S. (1959). Systema Helminthum, Volume 2. The Cestodes of Vertebrates. John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA, pp. 207, 401. ISBN 978-0-470-96987-8
^ Mehlhorn, Heinz (1998): Grundriß der Parasitenkunde. G. Fischer Stuttgart. ISBN 3-437-25830-3

External links

[1] Schmidt, G.D. (1982). Cestoda. In: (Parker, S.P.) Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, vol. 1. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 807-822.

[2] Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. (1994). Family Davaineidae Braun, 1900. In: (Khalil, L.F., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A., eds) Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Vertebrates. Commonwealth Agriculture Bureaux International, Wallingford, Oxon, UK, pp. 407-441. ISBN 978-0-85198-879-5

[3] Yamaguti, S. (1959). Systema Helminthum, Volume 2. The Cestodes of Vertebrates. John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA, pp. 207, 401. ISBN 978-0-470-96987-8

[4] Mehlhorn, Heinz (1998): Grundriß der Parasitenkunde. G. Fischer Stuttgart. ISBN 3-437-25830-3

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