Wen Ting-Huan
Faculty of Pathogen Biology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Zhongguo Ji Sheng Chong Xue Yu Ji Sheng Chong Bing Za Zhi. 2010 Dec 30;28(6):444-50.
Parasites and their hosts are animals, their scientific names are subject to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The core principles of the Code are the Principle of Name-Bearing Types, the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy. The Code provides guidance for zoologists to use correctly the available names. An assemblages of identifiable species of uncertain generic position are treated as a genus-group level for taxonomic convenience known as "collective groups" which requires no types and does not compete in priority with other genus-group names. The vernacular of plerocercoid metacestode of pseudophyllid tapeworm is known as sparganum, and has been treated as collective group Sparganum. The author makes a rectification for the Chinese terms of Diphyllobothrium and Spirometra according to their etymology. The original designation of the type species of the genus Spirometra is Diphyllobothrium decipiens (Diesing, 1850) by Faust et al, in 1929, but not Spirometra erinacei (Rudolphi) by Mueller in 1937, and the authorship of the latter species is Faust et al and the valid name as Spirometra erinacei (Faust, Campbell & Kellogg, 1929) synonymic with S. erinaceieuropaei (Rudolphi, 1819) and Diphyllobothrium mansoni (Joyeux et Houdemer, 1928), not vise versa, which is verified by CAB Thesaurus in 2010.
寄生虫及其宿主均为动物，它们的学名受《国际动物命名法规》管辖。该法规的核心原则是具名模式原则、优先权原则和异物同名原则。该法规为动物学家正确使用现有名称提供指导。为分类方便起见，将具有不确定属级地位的可识别物种组合视为一个属级水平，称为“集合群”，它不需要模式，也不与其他属级名称竞争优先权。假叶目绦虫的裂头蚴俗称“裂头蚴”，并被视为集合群“裂头蚴属”。作者根据双叶槽绦虫属和迭宫绦虫属的词源对其汉语术语进行了订正。迭宫绦虫属的模式种最初由福斯特等人于1929年指定为欺骗双叶槽绦虫（Diesing，1850），而非穆勒于1937年指定的猬迭宫绦虫（Rudolphi），后一物种的作者是福斯特等人，有效名称为猬迭宫绦虫（福斯特、坎贝尔和凯洛格，1929），与欧洲猬迭宫绦虫（Rudolphi，1819）和曼氏双叶槽绦虫（Joyeux和Houdemer，1928）同义，反之则不成立，这一点在2010年得到了CAB叙词表的验证。
