Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Parasitology 1735-7020 6 4 2011 12 15 105 108 EN SH Hosseini Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran MR Youssefi Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Islamic Azad University, Babol–Branch, Iran I Mobedi Department of Medical Parasitology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Science, Iran AND Center for Research of Endemic Parasites of Iran (CREPI), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran SM Hosseini Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Islamic Azad University, Babol–Branch, Iran BA Zaheri Centre of Environment Biology of Semnan Province, Semnan, Iran 2015 10 03 The Asian cheetah is known as Iranian panther. A four years old female cheetah was killed in a road accident by a truck in Abbas Abad (Biarjamand) County around Shahrood City in Sem­nan Province, central part of Iran.  Two days after the accident the carcass of animal was autopsied and only five cestodes were obtained from its intestine. In inspection of other or­gans no other helminth was observed. Cestod samples were fixed and stained by carmine acid. Characterization of the cestodes using morphological standard key, identified the ces­todes as Taenia acinonyxi. https://ijpa.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijpa/article/view/212 https://ijpa.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijpa/article/download/212/211