Diphyllobothrium dendriticum

Diphyllobothrium dendriticum
	Median segments of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Subclass:	Eucestoda
Order:	Pseudophyllidea
Family:	Diphyllobothriidae
Genus:	Diphyllobothrium; Cobbold, 1858
Species:	D. dendriticum
Binomial name
	Diphyllobothrium dendriticum;

Diphyllobothrium dendriticum is a large pseudophyllid cestode of the family Diphyllobothriidae.

For many years D. dendriticum infection was neglected. Diphyllobothriasis is not a life-threatening disease and most human cases are mild or even asymptomatic. The original distribution of D. dendriticum is circumboreal, but it was also found in Argentina and Chile.

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