Cestodaria

Cestodaria
Adults of Australamphilina elongata in body cavity of freshwater turtle.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Subclass: Cestodaria
Orders

Cestodaria is a likely paraphyletic subclass of the class Cestoda. The Cestodaria subclass is made up of Amphilinidea and Gyrocotylidea. The larvae have ten hooks on the posterior end.: 44 

References

  1. ↑ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10658874/
  2. ↑ Rohde, K., The Amphilinidea, a small group of aberrant tapeworms Archived December 23, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Conn, David Bruce; Świderski, Zdzisław (2008). "A standardised terminology of the embryonic envelopes and associated developmental stages of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda)". Folia Parasitologica. 55: 42–52. doi:10.14411/fp.2008.006. PMID 18578166.