Eucestoda

(invertebrate zoology) The true tapeworms, a subclass of the class Cestoda.

One of the two classes of cestodes. Includes the true tapeworms identified by having a holdfast organ or scolex, usually a segmented body, and a life cycle which includes an intermediate host.

Eucestoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Platyhelminthes Class: Cestoda Subclass: Eucestoda
Orders
Aporidea Caryophyllidea Cyclophyllidea Diphyllidea Lecanicephalidea Litobothridea Nippotaeniidea Proteocephalidea Pseudophyllidea Spathebothriidea Tetraphyllidea Trypanorhyncha

Eucestoda is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda. Its larvae are hexacanth (have six hooks on the head) in contrast to the decacanth (ten-hooked) Cestodaria.

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