Eucestoda
Eucestoda is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria). The Eucestoda are commonly referred to as tapeworms. Larvae are hexacanth, having six posterior hooks on the scolex (head), in contrast to the decacanth (ten-hooked) Cestodaria. All species of the Eucestoda are endoparasites of vertebrates, living in the digestive tract or related ducts. Examples are the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium, with a human definitive host and pigs...
17 branches of this subclass, most-observed first
Cyclophyllidea
orderCyclophyllidea
Diphyllobothriidea
orderDiphyllobothriidea
Trypanorhyncha
orderTrypanorhyncha
Bothriocephalidea
orderBothriocephalidea
Tetraphyllidea
orderTetraphyllidea
Onchoproteocephalidea
orderOnchoproteocephalidea
Phyllobothriidea
orderPhyllobothriidea
Rhinebothriidea
orderRhinebothriidea
Spathebothriidea
orderSpathebothriidea
Nippotaeniidea
orderNippotaeniidea
Haplobothriidea
orderHaplobothriidea
Cathetocephalidea
orderCathetocephalidea
Diphyllidea
orderDiphyllidea
Litobothriidea
orderLitobothriidea
Tetrabothriidea
orderTetrabothriidea
Lecanicephalidea
orderLecanicephalidea
Caryophyllidea
orderCaryophyllidea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 551556.