Dasyurotaenia talbotin. sp. (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) parasitic in the dasyurid marsupialDasyurus albopunctatusSchlegel, from Papua New Guinea

A new species of Dasyurotaenia Beddard, 1912 (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) is described from the intestine of the dasyurid marsupial Dasyurus albopunctatus Schlegel from Papua New Guinea. The new species, D. talboti, differs from the type species, D. robusta Beddard, 1912 in possessing prominent transverse osmoregulatory canals and a symmetrical vitellarium. It differs from the only other congener, D. dasyuri Beveridge, 1984, in the number of rostellar hooks and the lack of any disparity in size between the anterior and posterior hook rows in D. talboti.