Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
4-322.40.00
Cestoda
Clades: Platyhelminthes; Platyzoa; Protostomia; Animals.
Cestoda
English: Cestodes; Tapeworms.
Zoology: complex life-cycles, with mature stages that live as parasites in the digestive systems of fish or land vertebrates, and intermediate stages that infest secondary hosts; generate vast numbers of hermaphroditic, segment-like proglottids which detach when mature, are excreted and then release eggs.