What is the biotic name for Tapeworm?

Answer 1

Well, tapeworms are in the phylum Platyhelminthes and the class Cestoda, but those wouldn't be their scientific names. Tapeworms are a large category of invertebrates, so you would have to know the species of tapeworm to found out its binomial nomenclature (Genus species).

Answer 2

Contrary to the incorrect/incomplete answer below, the correct scientific name for the common tapeworm from pork isTaenia solium. The tapeworm commonly contracted from beef is T. saginata and that from fish, Diphyllobothrium latum.

Hymenolepis diminuta is the tapeworm species associated with rats, and is far less common in humans, especially this sin hygienic environments.

Hymenolepis diminuta -D

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The scientific name for tape worm is Cestode.

Answer 3

Taenia