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
