{{Short description|Species of flatworm}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image2 = | genus = Taenia | species = multiceps | authority = Leske, 1780 }}
'''''Taenia multiceps''''' is an intestinal tapeworm and a cause of coenurosis.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Haq |first1=Abrar Ul |last2=Tramboo |first2=Shahana Riyaz |last3=Allaie |first3=Idrees Mehraj |title=Parasites in the nervous system of dogs and cats |date=2023-01-01 |work=Organ-Specific Parasitic Diseases of Dogs and Cats |pages=113–139 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/abs/pii/B9780323953528000114 |access-date=2025-12-25 |publisher=Academic Press |doi=10.1016/B978-0-323-95352-8.00011-4 |isbn=978-0-323-95352-8 |language=en-US|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Ecology== thumb|''Taenia Multiceps'' in sheep's brain The definitive hosts for ''T. multiceps'' are canids, while intermediate hosts are mostly cattle, although many other herbivores may serve.<ref>{{cite web | title=CDC - DPDX - Coenurosis | date=14 June 2019 | url=https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/coenurosis/index.html }}</ref> The larval stage is called coenurus cerebralis.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Varcasia |first1=Antonio |last2=Tamponi |first2=Claudia |last3=Ahmed |first3=Fahad |last4=Cappai |first4=Maria Grazia |last5=Porcu |first5=Francesca |last6=Mehmood |first6=Naunain |last7=Dessì |first7=Giorgia |last8=Scala |first8=Antonio |title=Taenia multiceps coenurosis: A review |journal=Parasites & Vectors |year=2022 |volume=15 |issue=1 |article-number=84 |doi=10.1186/s13071-022-05210-0 |doi-access=free |pmid=35279199 |pmc=8917661}}</ref>
== Pathology == The species is one of the most common causes of disease of the central nervous system of sheep in Britain. It is absent from Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abbott |first1=Kym |first2=Philip |last2=Hynd |first3=Simon |last3=de Graaf |first4=Tamara |last4=Leahy |first5=John |last5=Larsen |chapter=Diseases of the Central Nervous System (CNS) |title=The Practice of Sheep Veterinary Medicine |pages=473–88 |publisher=University of Adelaide Press |year=2018 |jstor=j.ctvb4bssr.19 |isbn=978-1-925261-77-6 |chapter-url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvb4bssr.19}}</ref>
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Category:Eucestoda Category:Animals described in 1780
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