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On 2 March 2022, an adult male lynx that was road-killed in the Apuseni Mountains (Surducel hunting ground, Bihor County) was collected, frozen for biosafety, and a necropsy was performed. Taeniid cestodes were detected, with a total intestinal burden of nine adult specimens. Genetic analyses confirmed Taenia lynciscapreoli, and the obtained sequences were deposited in GenBank (PV843597, PV855065, PV844409). Phylogenetic inference based on cox1 assigned the Romanian isolate within the European cluster, distinct from the Chinese isolate, while showing genetic proximity to Taenia sp. (MW846305) that have been reported from a lynx in China. 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