Cestodes (generalities + characs) Flashcards
The cestodes, or tapeworms, constitute the class ____ of the phylum ____.
Cestoda; Platyhelminthes
All adult tapeworms have a white body and a ____-like appearance.
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ribbon-like
All cestodes are hermaphroditic, otherwise known as ____.
monoecious
What do you call the attachment organ in the anterior portion of a tapeworm?
scolex
What do you call the portion immediately posterior to the scolex where new segments continuously grow?
neck
What do you call the segments of a tapeworm that grows from the neck?
proglottids
also known as strobila
The new segments are referred to as ____ because they do not yet contain fully developed internal structures.
immature
The ____ segments are larger and are found near the middle of the chain, and may contain set/s of reproductive organs.
mature
The terminal portion of the strobila contains the ____ segments, usually filled with eggs.
gravid
or ripe
In the adult worm of cestodes, the eggs are enclosed in the ____, a structure that varies in shape and size and serves as an important diagnostic feature.
uterus
Terminal proglottids may become detached in the intestine and pass out with the stool in a process called ____.
apolysis
All tapeworms inhabit the ____, where they live attached to the mucosa.
small intestine
Tapeworms do not have a digestive system. Instead, nutrients are absorbed from the host’s intestine through the ____.
tegument
The tapeworms are classified into two orders, order ____ and order ____.
- Order Pseudophyllidea
- Order Cyclophyllidea
False & True tapeworm
All cestodes have four muscular, cuplike suckers on the scolex except the tapeworms from what order?
order Pseudophyllidea
Cestodes under the order Pseudophyllidea possess a scolex bearing grooves called ____ instead of suckers.
bothria
The scolex may have an elongate and protrusible structure called ____ that is situated in the center of the scolex.
rostellum
Depending on whether hooks are present or not, the crown of scolex may be ____ or ____.
armed or unarmed
In general, cestodes’ extraintestinal infection with the ____ forms is a much more serious matter than infection with the adult worm.
larval
What are the three shapes (kinds) a scolex may have?
- Quadrate
- Globular
- Spoon-like
Identify the order of tapeworm being described
Dibothriocephalus latus is a member
Order Pseudophyllidea
Identify the order of tapeworm being described
Scolex is/has:
- Spoonlike, almond-shaped, spatulate
- 2 slitlike grooves called bothria
- No rostellum and no hooks
Order Pseudophyllidea
Identify the order of tapeworm being described
Scolex is/may:
- Quadrate
- possess rostellum
- possess 4 cuplike suckers
Order Cyclophyllidea