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This species was first described by Goeze (1782:410) under the name of 

 "Der rimzUchter Fischbandwurm " and not as Taenia rugosa, as indicated 

 by many later writers, including such authorities as Liihe, Braun and Ariola. 

 It was Batsch (1786:208) who gave the specific name on the basis of Goeze's 

 description. The latter, in fact, in a foot-note (p. 410) accepted Pallas' 

 T. tetragonoceps to be synonymous with the forms he studied, at least in part, 

 since he recognized that they were at the same time unlike those figured by Pallas 

 after Bloch, from the " Madui-morane " and the " Rheinlachs. " It remained 

 for Rudolphi (1810:42) to give a somewhat more detailed description, which 

 seems to have been accepted by Diesing (1850, 1863) and others, altho Dujar- 



