Cestodes

Question 1

What is the hold fast organ for tapeworms?

Answer 1

Scolex

Question 2

What are the 4 suckers on the scolex of a true tapeworm called?

Answer 2

Acetabula

Question 3

How do tapeworms take in nutrients?

Answer 3

Through tegument

Question 4

What is an achorlike organelle with backwards facing hooks possessed by tapeworms?

Answer 4

Rosetllum

Question 5

What is the reproduction type in tapeworms?

Answer 5

Hermaphrodite

Question 6

What are eggs in the gravis proglottids that contain the larval stage called?

Answer 6

Hexacanth (6 hooks)

Question 7

How is a pyriform apparatus type egg like?

Answer 7

It has 3 coverings, the innermost is pear shaped.

Question 8

Which tapeowkr has multiple hexacanth in each egg packet?

Answer 8

Dipylidium

Question 9

Which tapeworm egg has an speculum at one end?

Answer 9

Pseudophyllidean egg

Question 10

Which larval stage is in an arthropod?

Answer 10

Cystercercoid

Question 11

Which larval stage is in a mammalian host?

Answer 11

Cystercercus

Question 12

Name a tapeworm that has a bladder work or cystercercus stage?

Answer 12

Taenia pisiformis or the canine taeniid tapeworm

Question 13

What is the class for pseudotapeworms?

Answer 13

Cotyloda

Question 14

What is the ciliated hexacanth embryo if pseudotapeworms called?

Answer 14

Coracidium

Question 15

When ingested by a copepod, the coracidium develops to what stage?

Answer 15

Procercoid

Question 16

Once eaten by the definitive host, a procercoid becomes what?

Answer 16

Pleroceroid

Question 17

What is the name for all of the connected proglottids?

Answer 17

Strobila

Question 18

Moniezia are commonly called what?

Answer 18

Ruminant tapeworms

Question 19

What is the Intermediate host for Moniezia?

Answer 19

Grain mite

Question 20

What is the larval stage of Moniezia?

Answer 20

Metacestode

Question 21

What is the common name for Anoplocephala?

Answer 21

Equine tapewor

Question 22

Which tapeworm is the double pored tapeworm?

Answer 22

Dipylidium caninum or cucumber seed tapeworm

Question 23

How do animals get dipylidium?

Answer 23

Ingestion of fleas

Question 24

How is Dipylidium diagnosed?

Answer 24

Egg packets fo on fecal flotation or proglottids are seen in feces, bedding or haircoat.

Question 25

What is the Intermediate host for Taenia psiformis?

Answer 25

Rabbit

Question 26

What is a zoonotic and dangerous tapeworm and why?

Answer 26

Echinococcus, because it is bodu migrant and tiny

Question 27

The unilocular hydatid cyst is found where?

Answer 27

Liver, lung and other organs in ruminants

Question 28

The alveolar hydatid cyst is found where?

Answer 28

Liver or lungs or rodent Intermediate host

Question 29

Where do digenetic trematodes parasitize?

Answer 29

Internally of domestic and wild animals

Question 30

Where do monogenetic trematodes parasitize?

Answer 30

External, on scales of reptiles

Question 31

What is fluke puke?

Answer 31

Regurgitated ceccal contents, because they dont have an anus

Question 32

What is the fluke larval motile stage called?

Answer 32

Miracidium

Question 33

What is the sporocyst?

Answer 33

Developmental stage after penetration of the miracidium into a snail , 1st Intermediate host

Question 34

What is the ventral sucker used as a hold fast organ in digenetic flukes?

Answer 34

Acetabulum

Question 35

What is the common name for Nanophyetus salkincola?

Answer 35

Salmon poisoning fluke of dogs

Question 36

What is the common name for platynosomum fastosum?

Answer 36

Lizard poisoning fluke of cats

Question 37

What is the common name for Fascioloides magna?

Answer 37

Liver fluke of white tailed deer

Question 38

What is a black spot?

Answer 38

Melanin deposit in response to present of metacercaria

Question 39

Avian schistisomes cause what in humans?

Answer 39

Swimmer's itch

Question 40

What is the common name for schistosomes?

Answer 40

Blood flukes

Question 41

What makes blood flukes unique?

Answer 41

They are not hermaphrodites

Question 42

Where does lizard poisoning fluke in cats live?

Answer 42

Bike ducts

Question 43

What is a juvenile fluke called?

Answer 43

Metacercaria, produced in fish