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is approached in size only by P. longicollis. The latter, however, has 

 a well developed fifth sucker and, according to von Linstow, a much 

 smaller number of testes. P. torulosus may be differentiated from P. 

 percae and P. cernuae by its larger head, larger suckers, lack of a fifth 

 sucker, more numerous testes and the different arrangement of the same, 

 and by its smaller number of uterine pouches. P. torulosus is much 

 larger than P. macrocephalus. It has a larger head, larger suckers, 

 fewer uterine pouches and a different arrangement of the dorsal layer 

 of testes than the latter species. P. torulosus is so different from the 

 other described species of Proteocephalus that a danger of its being 

 confused with them is scarcely possible. 



PROTEOCEPHALUS MACROCEPHALUS (Creplin) 



[Figs. 1, 47-49, 171] 



1825: Taenia macrocephala Creplin 1825 



1845: Taenia macrocephala Dujardin 1845:585 



1850: Taenia macrocephala Diesing 1850:513-514 



1859 : Taenia macrocephala Molin 1859 :13 



1875 : Taenia macrocephala von Linstow 1875 



1889: Taenia dilatata Linton 1889:488-489 



1893 : Taenia macrocephala Olsson 1893 



1896 : Ichthyotaenia macrocephala Riggenbach 1896 :267 



1897: Taenia dilatata Linton 1897:425 



1897: Taenia macrocephala Stossich 1897:7 



1898: Taenia macrocephala Stossich 1898a :113-114 



1898 : Taenia macrocephala Miihling 1898 :37, 69 



1901: Taenia dilatata Linton 1901:435 



1903 : Ichthyotaenia hemisphaerica Schneider 1903 :29 



1905 : Ichthyotaenia macrocephala Schneidei 1905 :10, 17-19 



1905 : Proteocephalus macrocephalus Nufer 1905 :134-152 



1909: Ichthyotaenia macrocephala Liihe 1909:33-34 



1911 : Proteocephalus macrocephalus La Rue 1911 :475 



Specific Diagnosis: The characters of the genus. Adult cestodes 

 possessing strobila as much as 40 cm. long by 1-1.8 mm. broad or per- 

 haps more. Segmentation quite distinct. Proglottids very numerous; 

 first much broader than long; mature, broader than long or nearly 

 quadrate ; ripe, longer than broad. Neck 5.0-7.0 mm. long, 0.1-0.25 mm. 

 broad. Head globose, flattened dorsoventrally, 0.28-0.30-0.32 mm. broad, 

 0.15-0.16 mm. thick. Suckers 0.095-0.106 mm. in diameter. Fifth 



