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Tapeworms are parasitic flatworms that belong to the taxonomic class ''Cestoda''. 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] | '''Tapeworms''' are parasitic flatworms that belong to the taxonomic class ''Cestoda''. 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] | ||
==Anatomy== | ==Anatomy== | ||
