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The genus of tapeworm is Taenia. It is commonly abbreviated simply as T. when referring to one of the various species. There are over a thousand different species of tapeworm. Most vertebrates (animals with a spinal column) can be infected by at least one species, maybe more.
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∙ 10y agoTapeworm belong to the Phylum Cestoda family. Another name for tapewords are "Cestodes". Tapeworms are parasitic flatworms that live in the digestive systems of living things and humans. Hope that helps!
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Are Tapeworms and pseudo-tapeworms in the same Phylum?
Tapeworms are of the class Cestoda of the phylum Platyhelminthes.
What phylum are tapeworms categorized in?
Tapeworms are classified in the phylum Platyhelminthes, which is a group of flatworms.
Are tapeworms arthopods?
No. Tapeworms are not arthropods. They do not have an exoskeleton. They are flatworms in the phylum platyhelminthes.
What is a tapeworms phylum traits?
Platyhelminthes
What is phylum platyhelmithis?
It is a phylum in the kingdom animalia and it contains flatworms such as tapeworms.
What is phylum platyelminthes?
It is a phylum in the kingdom animalia and it contains flatworms such as tapeworms.
Tapeworms and planarians are examples from which phylum?
platyhelminthes
Do tapeworms belong to the roundworm phylum?
no, they belong to the flatworms
What phylum do flukes and tapeworms belong to?
Platyhelminthes.
What does the flatworm phylum include?
A Flatworm Phylum includes free-living,tapeworms,and,flukes.Did this answer work rate it.
What animals are in the same phylum as flat worms?
Flatworms are of the phylum Platyhelminthes. This phylum has three classes: Turbellaria -- predacious worms Trematoda -- known commonly as flukes Cestoda -- tapeworms
What is another name for the Platyelminthes?
They are called flatworms or tapeworms, but in scientific literature they are called Platyelminthes, they are phylum of relatively simple bilateral, unsegmented, soft bodies, invertebrate animals
