cestode Flashcards
all cestodes are hermaphrodite except?
Schistosomes
2 DIVISIONS
Trematodes or Flukes
Cestodes or Tapeworms
ORDER PSEUDOPHYLLIDEAN life cycle?
Aquatic life cycle
ORDER PSEUDOPHYLLIDEAN scolex?
Scolex: consist of 2 opposing sucking organs
Scolex: 4 suckers
ORDER CYCLOPHYLLIDEAN
Vitellaria: condensed to a mass adjacent to the ovary
ORDER CYCLOPHYLLIDEAN
TYPES OF TREMATODES
schistosomes (blood flukes)
Tissue Flukes
class cestoda appearance
Flat or ribbon like
Microorganism begins life as a male and change
into female
Protandry
how many segments in class cestoda
3-4,000 segments
Having the anterior proglottids
overlapping the next exterior
one
Craspedote
proglottids don’t overlap
Acraspedote -
Premature detachment of
proglottids or release of
terminal gravid proglottids
Apolytic
The gravid proglottids are not
shed in the strobila and the
eggs are release in another
way
Anapolytic
cestodes doesnt habe what tract and system?
Alimentary tract and vascular system
Food is absorbed by the
cuticle system
(Having only a one reproductive organ;
a male or a female)
Monoecious
(Having 2 reproductive
organ; a male and a female
Hermaphrodite
is the integument of an
organism esp. the parasitic flatworms)
TEGUMENT
Highly specialized microvilli covering the
entire surface of tegument of the
cestodes
Microtriches
Fine hair like filament distributed all
throughout the body
Microtriches
Region of growth
* Where the segments will arise
Neck
- Individual segments are called
proglottids;
the entire chain is
called
strobilla