Cestoidea Anatomy and Reproduction

head, maybe simple or provided with suckers, grooves, hooks and spine

mobile and often retractable structure in anterior part of scolex

unsegmented portion after the head where growth occurs

<p>entire segment of the body of tapeworm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>refers to segments of tapeworm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>tapeworm with strobila where proglottid overlaps the following or the next one</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>tapeworm with segments that do not overlap each other</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>process by which gravid or senile terminal segments are detached from the body of tapeworm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>dilatation or pockets in the uterine wall containing eggs and become isolated</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>metameric repetition of their reproductive organs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>opening created in the uterus when the proglottid breaks away from the strobila</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>containing the hexacanth embryo and two embryonic membranes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>principal and most resistant covering of many oncosphere arising from inner envelope</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>ciliated embryophore containing the oncosphere; the counterpart of miracidium in trematodes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>continuous differentiation of new proglottids</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>more or less cup shaped, circular or oval in outline, with a heavy muscular wall</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>usually two in number, although as many as six may occur and take the form of shallow pits or longer grooves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>usually are in groups of four; are quite muscular, projecting sharply from the scolex</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>undifferentiated zone that lies between the scolex and strobila</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>solid bodied bearing hooks on the cercomere in its posterior region</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>elongate and solid bodied; occurs in 2nd intermediate host</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>elongate, solid bodied with deeply invaginated acetabular scolex</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>with a single non-invaginated scolex withdrawn into small vesicle with practically no cavity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>with single scolex invaginated into itself in a large fluid containing vesicle or bladder</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>with a single non-invaginated scolex when fully developed and attached to a bladder by a long segmented strobila</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a large fluid containing bladder with number of invaginated scolices attached to the wall</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a large fluid containing bladder called brood capsules in which scolices develop</p> Signup and view all the answers