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Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). Most of the species—and the best-known—are those in the subclass Eucestoda; they are ribbon-like worms as adults, commonly known as tapeworms. Their bodies consist of many similar units known as proglottids—essentially packages of eggs which are regularly shed ...
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While elasmobranchs are the definitive hosts, other organisms may be infected in earlier stages of the life cycle of these cestodes. In 2010, there was a discovery of two species that belong to this group of tapeworms to have infected bivalve mollusks in South Carolina. Lab samples were taken from this event in 200 clams which were measured and ...
Tapeworm – Tapeworm infection: Cestoda, Taenia multiceps: intestine stool rare worldwide Diphyllobothriasis – tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum: intestines, blood stool (microscope) Europe, Japan, Uganda, Peru, Chile ingestion of raw fresh water fish Diphyllobothriasis – tapeworm Diphyllobothrium pacificum: intestines stool (microscope) Peru
These can be categorized into three groups; cestodes, nematodes and trematodes. Examples include: Acanthocephala; Ascariasis (roundworms) Cestoda (tapeworms) including: Taenia saginata (human beef tapeworm), Taenia solium (human pork tapeworm), Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm) and Echinococcosis (hydatid tapeworm)
Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass being Cestodaria).Larvae have six posterior hooks on the scolex (head), in contrast to the ten-hooked Cestodaria.
A pair of Taenia proglottids, dried and resembling sesame seeds, each containing hundreds of eggs Life cycle of T. saginata inside and outside of the human body. The life cycle begins with either the gravid proglottids or free eggs (embryophores) with oncospheres (also known as hexacanth embryos) being passed in the feces, which can last for days to months in the environment.
Dwarf tapeworm (Hymenolepis nana, also known as Rodentolepis nana, Vampirolepis nana, Hymenolepis fraterna, and Taenia nana) is a cosmopolitan species though most common in temperate zones, and is one of the most common cestodes (a type of intestinal worm or helminth) infecting humans, especially children.