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Conservation status: Endangered |
Scolex of Taenia solium | | Scientific classification | | | | Species | | Species Taenia crassiceps
Species Taenia pisiformis
Species Taenia saginata
Species Taenia solium The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive. ...
Tenia solium, a parasitic cestode worm, showing its scolex. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ...
Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ...
Classes Monogenea Trematoda Cestoda Turbellaria The flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Greek platy: flat; helminth: worm) are a phylum of relatively simple soft-bodied invertebrate animals. ...
Orders Subclass Cestodaria Amphilinidea Gyrocotylidea Subclass Eucestoda Aporidea Caryophyllidea Cyclophyllidea Diphyllidea Lecanicephalidea Litobothridea Nippotaeniidea Proteocephalidea Pseudophyllidea Spathebothriidea Tetraphyllidea Trypanorhyncha In biology, Cestoda is the class of parasitic flatworms, called tapeworms, that live in the digestive tracts of vertebrates as adults and often in the bodies of various animals as juveniles. ...
Families Dilepididae Hymenolepididae Taeniidae … Tapeworms of the order Cyclophyllidea (the cyclophyllid cestodes) are the most important cestode parasites of humans and domesticated animals. ...
Genera Genus Echinococcus Genus Taenia The taeniid family is an important family of worms. ...
Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[1] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
Species Species Taenia crassiceps Taenia crassiceps is a member of the Taenia genus. ...
Species Species Taenia pisiformis Taenia pisiformis is a tapeworm. ...
Binomial name Taenia saginata Goeze, 1782 Taenia saginata proglottid stained to show uterine branches. ...
Stained proglottid. ...
| Taenia is a genus of tapeworm that includes some important parasites of livestock. All members of this genus have an "armed" scolex, meaning that there are hooks on the "head" region. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ...
Orders Subclass Cestodaria Amphilinidea Gyrocotylidea Subclass Eucestoda Aporidea Caryophyllidea Cyclophyllidea Diphyllidea Lecanicephalidea Litobothridea Nippotaeniidea Proteocephalidea Pseudophyllidea Spathebothriidea Tetraphyllidea Trypanorhyncha In biology, Cestoda is the class of parasitic flatworms, called tapeworms, that live in the digestive tracts of vertebrates as adults and often in the bodies of various animals as juveniles. ...
Orders Subclass Cestodaria Amphilinidea Gyrocotylidea Subclass Eucestoda Aporidea Caryophyllidea Cyclophyllidea Diphyllidea Lecanicephalidea Litobothridea Nippotaeniidea Proteocephalidea Pseudophyllidea Spathebothriidea Tetraphyllidea Trypanorhyncha In biology, Cestoda is the class of parasitic flatworms, called tapeworms, that live in the digestive tracts of vertebrates as adults and often in the bodies of various animals as juveniles. ...
Proglottids have central ovary, with a vitellarium (yolk gland) posterior to it. As in all cyclophyllid cestodes, the genital pore on the side of the proglottid. Eggs released when proglottid deteriorates, and so a uterine pore is unnecessary. Tapeworms of the order Cyclophyllidea (the cyclophyllid cestodes) are the most important cestode parasites of humans and domesticated animals. ...
Important species include:
- Taenia saginata, which is also known as the beef tapeworm, though it also infects humans, and can only reproduce while in the human gut. One woman had an 81-foot-long worm in her intestine.
- Taenia solium, which is known as the pork tapeworm. Like Taenia saginata humans serve as its primary host, and it can only reproduce by the dispersal of proglottids while in the gut. These reinfect pigs when human faeces is improperly disposed of.This infection is commonest in parts of Africa.
- Taenia pisiformis, which is common in wild dogs and in rabbits, who serve as intermediate hosts.
- Taenia crassiceps
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