Mesocestoididae

	Mesocestoididae Mesocestoididae is a family of Cestoda (tapeworms) in the order Cyclophyllidea Tapeworms of the order Cyclophyllidea (the cyclophyllid cestodes) are the most important cestode parasites of humans and domesticated animals. All have multiple proglottid "segments", and all have four suckers on their scolices (heads), though .... Members of this family are gut parasites of small mammals and occasionally birds. Genera Two genera are recognised, '' Mesocestoides'' and '' Mesogyna''. References Cestoda Platyhelminthes families {{Cestoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mesocestoides ''Mesocestoides'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Mesocestoididae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: ''Mesocestoides alaudae'' ''Mesocestoides ambiguus'' ''Mesocestoides angustatus'' ''Mesocestoides canislagopodis'' ''Mesocestoides imbutiformis'' ''Mesocestoides leptothylacus'' ''Mesocestoides lineatus'' ''Mesocestoides litteratus'' ''Mesocestoides melesi ''Mesocestoides'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Mesocestoididae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: ''Mesocestoides alaudae'' ''Mesocestoides ambiguus'' ''Mesocestoides angustatus'' ''Mesocestoides canis ...'' '' Mesocestoides perlatus'' '' Mesocestoides petrowi'' '' Mesocestoides zacharovae'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q12270752 Platyhelminthes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Cestoda Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). Most of the species—and the best-known—are those in the subclass Eucestoda; they are ribbon-like worms as adults, known as tapeworms. Their bodies consist of many similar units known as proglottids—essentially packages of eggs which are regularly shed into the environment to infect other organisms. Species of the other subclass, Cestodaria, are mainly fish infecting parasites. All cestodes are parasitic; many have complex life histories, including a stage in a definitive (main) host in which the adults grow and reproduce, often for years, and one or two intermediate stages in which the larvae develop in other hosts. Typically the adults live in the digestive tracts of vertebrates, while the larvae often live in the bodies of other animals, either vertebrates or invertebrates. For example, '' Diphyllobothrium'' has at least two intermediate hosts, a crustacean and then one or more freshwater fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Family (biology) Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cyclophyllidea Tapeworms of the order Cyclophyllidea (the cyclophyllid cestodes) are the most important cestode parasites of humans and domesticated animals. All have multiple proglottid "segments", and all have four suckers on their scolices (heads), though some may have other structures, as well. Proglottids of this order have genital openings on one side (except in the Dilepididae, which have genital openings on both sides), and a compact yolk gland or vitellarium posterior to the ovary. Families include: * Dipylidiidae, the most important member of which is ''Dipylidium caninum,'' also called the "cucumber tapeworm" or the "double-pore tapeworm" * Hymenolepididae, including the genus '' Hymenolepis'', a human parasite * Taeniidae, which consists of livestock parasites in the genus '' Taenia'' and parasites that encyst in humans of the genus ''Echinococcus'' * Anoplocephalidae, which includes several tapeworms of horses and a genus of tapeworms of ruminants, the '' Moniezia'' * Davaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Parasitism Parasitism is a Symbiosis, close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the Host (biology), host, causing it some harm, and is Adaptation, adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include single-celled protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as Armillaria mellea, honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the Orobanchaceae, broomrapes. There are six major parasitic Behavioral ecology#Evolutionarily stable strategy, strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), wikt:trophic, trophicallytransmitted parasitism (by being eaten), Disease vector, vector-transmitted paras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]