Platyhelminthes, Class Cestoda

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What is the common name for trematodes

Flukes

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What is the common name for cestodes?

Tapeworms

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What is the difference in shape of flukes vs tapeworms

Flukes- flattened/ leaf shaped

Tapeworms- ribbonlike and segmented into proglottids

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Name for true tapeworms?

Eucestoda

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What is the scolex in true tapeworms?

Head with four suckers called acetabula

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Do true tapeworms have a mouth?

No- they absorb nutrients through their tegument (body wall)

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What are true tapeworm’s rostellum?

Anchorlike structure