Canadian Journal of Zoology Does the number of genital organs matter? Case of the seal tapeworm Diphyllobothrium (syn. Diplogonoporus) tetrapterum (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea) Journal: Canadian Journal of Zoology Manuscript ID cjz-2017-0013.R1 Manuscript Type: Article Date Submitted by the Author: 20-Jun-2017 Complete List of Authors: Hernandez-Orts, Jesus; Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Transferencia TecnológicaDraft en Recursos Marinos Almirante Storni (CIMAS – CCT CONICET) y Escuela Superior de Ciencias Marinas (ESCiMar), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Güemes Scholz, Tomáš; Institute of Parasitology Brabec, Jan; Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences Kuzmina, Tetiana; Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine Kuchta, Roman; Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Helminthology cestode, duplication of genitalia, plerocercoids, Diphyllobothriidae, Keyword: MORPHOLOGY < Discipline, TAXONOMY-SYSTEMATICS < Discipline, PHYLOGENY < Discipline https://mc06.manuscriptcentral.com/cjz-pubs Page 1 of 36 Canadian Journal of Zoology Does the number of genital organs matter? Case of the seal tapeworm Diphyllobothrium (syn. Diplogonoporus ) tetrapterum (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea) Jesús S. Hernández-Orts, Tomáš Scholz, Jan Brabec, Tetiana Kuzmina, Roman Kuchta J.S. Hernández-Orts . Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Transferencia Tecnológica en Recursos Marinos Almirante Storni (CIMAS – CCT CONICET) y Escuela Superior de Ciencias Marinas (ESCiMar), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Güemes 1030, 8520, San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Argentina. T. Scholz, J. Brabec and R. Kuchta . Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic. T. Kuzmina . Schmalhausen InstituteDraft of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, 15, Bogdana Khmelnytskogo Street, 01030, Kyiv, Ukraine. Corresponding author: Roman Kuchta (email:
[email protected]) Abstract: The seal tapeworm Diphyllobothrium tetrapterum (von Siebold, 1848) Baer, 1932 (syn.