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Similar to the tapeworms of genus Diphyllobothrium, especially those in which the scolex of the adult lacks suckers or hooks. quotations examples
Infection of humans by plerocercoid larvae of various diphyllobothroid tapeworms belonging to the genus Spirometra is known as sparganosis.
1999, Edward K. Markell, David T. John, Wojciech A. Krotoski, Markell and Voge's Medical Parasitology, page 238
To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.
2012, Dongyou Liu, Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens, page 293