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Cestoda is in the class of parasitic flatworms, also called tapeworms. Tapeworms, as their name suggests, are long and flat. They don't have a digestive tract or mouth, and they also don't have eyes because they live in darkness. Cestodans use hooks or suckers to attach to hosts. They have two big parts of their body. The first one is called Scolex which is the head of a tapeworm and they use it to suck or hook. The second one is called proglottids, it is like the skin of a tapeworm. Normally tapeworm grows 15 to 30 feet. Many tapeworms infect food to enter people's body.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestoda]. The class of cestoda has two subclasses, the Cestodaria and the Eucestoda. [http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/cestoda.html] | |||
Cestoda is in the class of parasitic flatworms | |||
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== Significance to humans == | == Significance to humans == | ||
There are 57 species of | There are 57 species of cestoda were reported by humans. In 1999 there were so many humans who were infected by cestoda but cestoda can be one of the most important medicine for veterinarians. [http://www.answers.com/topic/tapeworm?cat=health] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
