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Platyhelminthes - phylum containing about 20,000 species of soft-bodied, bilaterally symmetrical, invertebrate animals, commonly called flatworms. There are four classes: the free-living, primarily aquatic class, Turb...
Cestodes in general have sensory organs in the scolex, which are attached to longitudinal nerves extending down the body. The nerves are attached to organs and the cestodes can detect tactile stimulation. (Brusca and Brusca, 2003) ...
Table of Cestodes found in Man Literature. - (I) Leuckart, The Parasites of Man (Edinburgh, 1886); (2) Braun, The Animal Parasites of Man (London, 1906); (3) Id., " Cestodes " in Braun's Klassen u. Ordnungen d. Thierreichs, vol. ii.
Trematodes and cestodes (flukes and tapeworms)
Caged companion birds should have very little risk of exposure to flukes and tapeworms. These parasites have an indirect life cycle that requires an intermediate host such as a snail or earthworm.
The life of Raillientina (R) loeweini Bartel and Hansen, 1964, a cestode of the black-tailed jack rabbit, Lepus californicus melanotis Mearns J. Parasitol., 51:800-806. Bartel, M. H., and M. F. Hansen 1962.
Diseases and Pests: Eastern cottontails are hosts to fleas, ticks, lice, cestodes, nematodes, trematodes, gray flesh fly larvae, botfly larvae, tularemia, shopes fibroma, torticollis, and streptothricosis cutaneous [27].
The Alpine Chough is a host of the widespread bird flea Ceratophyllus vagabunda, two specialist chough fleas Frontopsylla frontalis and F. laetus,[44] a cestode Choanotaenia pirinica,[45] and various species of chewing lice in the genera Brueelia, ...
In some groups, the scolex is dominated by bothria, which are sometimes called "sucking grooves," and which function like suction cups. Other groups have hooks and suckers that aid in attachment. Cyclophyllid cestodes can be identified by the ...
takes place diurnally from April to September in large offshore congregations. Up to 20 individual spawns may take place in one season, with intervals of about one to two weeks. Cobia are frequently parasitized by nematodes, trematodes, cestodes, ...
 See also: Trematode, Sucker, Fluke, Flatworm, Worm
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