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Eucestoda,
commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the
larger of the two
subclasses of
flatworms in the
class Cestoda (the
other subclass being Cestodaria)...
- (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...
- fish-eating
birds and rodents. This
hermaphroditic parasite belongs to the
Eucestoda subclass, of
class Cestoda. This
species has been used to demonstrate...
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Common name
Dimension Size
Reference Flatworm animal Eucestoda Tapeworm length (maximum) 25 m
Eucestoda Nematode animal Loa loa Loa loa
length (female) 20–70 mm...
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causes dracunculiasis.: 495 Hookworm:
causes helminthiasis Tapeworm (
Eucestoda):
causes cysticercosis, echinococcosis, hymenolepiasis, diphyllobothriasis...
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Cestoda Subclass Cestodaria Order Amphilinidea Order Gyrocotylidea Subclass Eucestoda Order Bothriocephalidea Order Caryophyllidea Order Cathetocephalidea Order...
- "Suppression of the
tapeworm order Pseudophyllidea (Platyhelminthes:
Eucestoda) and the
proposal of two new orders,
Bothriocephalidea and Diphyllobothriidea"...
- "Preliminary
phylogenetic analysis of
subfamilies of the
Proteocephalidea (
Eucestoda)".
Systematic Parasitology. 40 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1023/A:1005903506363...
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considered to be tapeworms, yet
differ from true tapeworms,
subclass Eucestoda,
because their bodies are
unsegmented and are not
divided into proglottids...
- Hoberg, Eric (July 11, 1989). "Trigonocotyle ****itesticulae sp.nov. (
Eucestoda: Tetrabothriidae): a
parasite of
pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata)"...
