Where do tapeworms live?

Answer 1

In the small intestine. Different animals are infected by different species of tapeworm, here are some examples:

Humans - Taenia saginata, Taenia solium

Dogs - Taenia serialis, Taenia pisiformis, Taenia ovis, Taenia hydatigena, Taenia multiceps, Dipylidium caninum (probably most common), Echinococcus granulosus or Echinococcus multilocularis.

Cats - Taenia taeniaeformis, Dipylidium caninum

Horses - Anoplocephala perfoliata

Ruminants - Monizia expansa

Answer 2

The tapeworms belong to another branch of the platyhelminths known as the cestodes. Like the flukes, they are flat in cross-section, they are entirely parasitic and are hermaphroditic. However, the tapeworms are highly specialised parasites. Many of their organ systems have disappeared in their millions of years of parasitic existence, and there is no free-living organism which even closely resembles them. The common ancestor which the tapeworms had with the other platyhelminths has been lost to time. Tapeworms consist of an anchoring organ or scolex which attaches them to the intestinal wall (adult tapeworms are invariably intestinal). The scolex may be armed with suckers, hooks, both or neither to help it hold fast. Growing out behind the scolex are the segments or proglottids - repeating organs which are complete reproductive organisms in themselves (they have both male and female sexual organs and self fertilise). These continue to grow out from the scolex in a chain, maturing as they go, until the last segments break off and are passed out with the faeces. Tapeworm life-cycles tend to follow a set pattern which depends on the presence of a predator-prey relationship.

Answer 3

they live in the stomach of living animals

Answer 4

inside people ....fvmpij-eThg'

Usually in the intestines.

Answer 5

yes, they are parasites living inside humans' intestines feeding on the food the human eats.

Answer 6

They can live under the dirt.

Answer 7

I think it lives in stomach