CESTODES Flashcards
No digestive / circulatory system
CESTODES / TAPEWORMS
Average life span of tapeworm
20 years
All are heteroxenous except
Hymenolepis nana
(homoxenous)
What tapeworm inhabits the intestinal tract
Adult tapeworm
With flattened “ribbon like” segmented
Cestodes/Tapeworms
Fish Broad Tapeworm / Russian Broad Tapeworm
Diphyllobotrium latum
Diphyllobotrium latum is under?
PSEUDOPHYLLIDEA
Scolex with bothria, with or without hooks, never with suckers
PSEUDOPHYLLIDEA
Scolex with 4 suckers
CYCLOPHYLLIDEA
Requires 3 host (1 Definitive Host and 2 Intermediate Hosts)
DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM
Proglottids are anapolytic
PSEUDOPHYLLIDEA
Proglottids are apolytic
CYCLOPHYLLIDEA
Produce operculated and immature eggs
PSEUDOPHYLLIDEA
Produce non-operculated and immature eggs
CYCLOPHYLLIDEA
Embryo: Coracidium
PSEUDOPHYLLIDEA
CYCLOPHYLLIDEA
Embryo: Hexacanth
3 hosts of DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM
*Definitive Host – Man
*First Intermediate Host – Fresh water crustaceans
(Copepods, cyclops)
*Second Intermediate Host – Fresh water fishes
(pike, eel, trout)
Usually Homoxenous and man may act both as Definitive and as Intermediate
Host
HYMENOLEPIS NANA
Intermediate hosts of HYMENOLEPIS NANA.
*Human flea (Pulex irritans)
*Rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)
*Dog flea (Ctenophalides canis)
*Cockroaches (B. germanica)
*Rice and Flour Beetles (Tenebrio spp.)
organ adapted for attachment; may be equipped with rostellum and hooklets
SCOLEX / HEAD
budding zone consisting of germinative tissues
NECK
contains undeveloped sexual organs
Immature
with complete sets of reproductive structures
Mature
where uterus are demonstrated (filled with eggs) undergoes detachment
Gravid/Ripe