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List of works by Bjoern Schaeffner

A century of taxonomic uncertainty: re-description of two species of tapeworms (Diphyllobothriidea) from Arctic seals

A new species of Grillotia Guiart, 1927 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) from the spotted skate, Raja straeleni Poll, in South Africa

scholarly article published in 2021

Adding one more to the list: A new species of Eniochobothrium (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) from the Oman cownose ray in South Africa

scientific article published in 2022

An ancient alliance: Matching evolutionary patterns of cartilaginous fishes (Elasmobranchii) and chloromyxid parasites (Myxozoa)

scientific article published in 2022

Ancipirhynchus afossalis n. g., n. sp. (Trypanorhyncha: Otobothriidae), from two species of sharks off Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo

scientific article published on July 31, 2011

Cavearhynchus, a new genus of tapeworm (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha: Pterobothriidae) from Himantura lobistoma Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2006 (Rajiformes) off Borneo, including redescriptions and new records of species of Pterobothrium Diesing, 1850

scientific article published on May 13, 2012

Correlated evolution of fish host length and parasite spore size: a tale from myxosporeans inhabiting elasmobranchs

Description of a New Trypanorhynch Species (Cestoda) from Indonesian Borneo, with the Suppression of Oncomegoides and the Erection of a New Genus Hispidorhynchus

scientific article published on October 27, 2011

Dollfusiella Campbell & Beveridge, 1994 (Trypanorhyncha: Eutetrarhynchidae) from elasmobranchs off Borneo, including descriptions of five new species

scientific article published on August 15, 2013

Four new species of Acanthobothrium van Beneden, 1849 (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) from the spotted skate, Raja straeleni Poll, off the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Hispidorhynchus styracurae n. sp. (Trypanorhyncha: Eutetrarhynchidae) From the Chupare Stingray, Styracura schmardae (Werner), from the Caribbean Sea, Including New Records of Oncomegas wageneri (Linton, 1890)

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Integrative taxonomy unravels the species diversity of Parachristianella (Cestoda : Trypanorhyncha) from both sides of the Panamanian isthmus

Mutation scanning-based analysis of anisakid larvae from Sillago flindersi from Bass Strait, Australia

scientific article published in February 2012

Parasites of cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) in South Africa - a neglected field of marine science.

scientific article

Poecilorhynchus perplexus n. g., n. sp. (Trypanorhyncha: Eutetrarhynchidae) from the brownbanded bambooshark, Chiloscyllium punctatum Müller & Henle, from Australia

scientific article published on April 18, 2013

Pristiorhynchus palmi n. g., n. sp. (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) from sawfishes (Pristidae) off Australia, with redescriptions and new records of six species of the Otobothrioidea Dollfus, 1942

scientific article published on January 9, 2013

Prochristianella mattisi sp. n. (Trypanorhyncha: Eutetrarhynchidae) from the wedgenose skate, Dipturus whitleyi (Rajiformes: Rajidae), from Tasmania (Australia)

scientific article published on July 1, 2013

Redescriptions and new records of species of Otobothrium Linton, 1890 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha)

scientific article published on December 15, 2012

Review of the genus Eutetrarhynchus Pintner, 1913 (Trypanorhyncha: Eutetrarhynchidae), with the description of Eutetrarhynchus beveridgei n. sp.

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Review of the genus Shirleyrhynchus Beveridge & Campbell, 1988 (Trypanorhyncha: Shirleyrhynchidae), with the resurrection of S. butlerae Beveridge & Campbell, 1988 and the description of S. panamensis n. sp.

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Revision of Wenyonia Woodland, 1923 (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) from catfishes (Siluriformes) in Africa

scientific article published on 5 May 2011

Revision of the family Sphyriocephalidae Pintner, 1913 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), with the description of Heterosphyriocephalus encarnae n. sp. and redescriptions of two species of Sphyriocephalus.

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The neglected diversity: Description and molecular characterisation of <i>Trypanosoma haploblephari</i> Yeld and Smit, 2006 from endemic catsharks (Scyliorhinidae) in South Africa, the first trypanosome sequence data from sharks globally

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

The trypanorhynch cestode fauna of Borneo

scientific article (publication date: 19 December 2014)

Threatened, host-specific affiliates of a red-listed host: Three new species of Acanthobothrium van Beneden, 1849 (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) from the endangered white skate, Rostroraja alba (Lacépède)

scholarly article published in 2022

Total mercury concentrations in sharks, skates and rays along the South African coast

scientific article published in 2022

Trypanorhynch cestodes (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in elasmobranchs and crustaceans in Moreton Bay, Queensland

Wenyonia gracilis sp. n. (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) from Synodontis zambezensis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae): the first native caryophyllidean tapeworm from southern Africa

scientific article published on 07 December 2020