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Habitat: In intestine of host. 



Possibly this species is the form which was originally referred to 

 by Acharius (1780:52) who called it Taenia eperlani. Acharius 's de- 

 scription and diagnosis of this form are not accessible to the writer. 

 Despite the fact that Rudolphi (1810:212) considered that this species 

 could not have been a synonym of Taenia longicollis Rud. it seems that it 

 must be a synonym of the latter species or else some of the host records of 



