Onchoproteocephalidea

	Onchoproteocephalidea Onchoproteocephalidea is an order of flatworms belonging to the class Cestoda. Families: * Onchobothriidae * Prosobothriidae * Proteocephalidae Proteocephalidae is a diverse family tapeworms with nearly 300 recognized species in 66 genera and 13 subfamilies, whose species are found in every continent. They are mainly parasites of siluriforms and other freshwater fishes, but also parasit ... References Cestoda {{Cestoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Onchobothriidae Onchobothriidae is a family of flatworms belonging to the order Onchoproteocephalidea. Genera Genera: * ''Acanthobothrium Onchobothriidae is a family of flatworms belonging to the order Onchoproteocephalidea Onchoproteocephalidea is an order of flatworms belonging to the class Cestoda. Families: * Onchobothriidae * Prosobothriidae * Proteocephalidae Proteo ...'' Blanchard, 1848 * '' Acanthobothroides'' Brooks, 1977 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4993216 Platyhelminthes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flatworms The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates. Unlike other bilaterians, they are acoelomates (having no body cavity), and have no specialized circulatory and respiratory organs, which restricts them to having flattened shapes that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through their bodies by diffusion. The digestive cavity has only one opening for both ingestion (intake of nutrients) and egestion (removal of undigested wastes); as a result, the food cannot be processed continuously. In traditional medicinal texts, Platyhelminthes are divided into Turbellaria, which are mostly non-parasitic animals such as planarians, and three entirely parasitic groups: Cestoda, Trematoda and Monogenea; however, since the turbellarians have since been proven not to be mono ... [...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]
	Prosobothriidae ''Prosobothrium'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the monotypic family Prosobothriidae. Species: '' Prosobothrium adherens'' '' Prosobothrium armigerum'' '' Prosobothrium japonicum'' References Cestoda Cestoda genera {{Flatworm-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Proteocephalidae Proteocephalidae is a diverse family tapeworms with nearly 300 recognized species in 66 genera and 13 subfamilies, whose species are found in every continent. They are mainly parasites of siluriforms and other freshwater fishes, but also parasitize reptiles and amphibians. A typical proteocephalid life cycles include planktonic crustaceans, and small fish as intermediate hosts. Subfamilies and Genera * Family Proteocephalidae Subfamily Acanthotaeniinae Freze, 1963 * ''Acanthotaenia'' von Linstow, 1903. Contains some 8 species of cestodes described from monitor lizards of the genus '' Varanus'' from India, Australia and the Philippines. As well as, ''Acanthotaenia'' ''overstreeti'' Brooks & Schmidt, 1978 from the rhinoceros iguana (''Cyclura cornuta''); Puerto Rico, and ''Acanthotaenia'' pythonis Wahid, 1968 described from a green tree python (''Morelia viridis'') at the London Zoo. * ''Australotaenia'' de Chambrier & de Chambrier, 2010. Contains 3 species that parasitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]