Biology:Diphyllobothriidea

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Short description: Order of flatworms

Diphyllobothriidea
proglottids of "Diphyllobothrium latum"
proglottids of Diphyllobothrium latum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Subclass: Eucestoda
Order: Diphyllobothriidea
Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008
Families

Diphyllobothriidea is an order of Cestoda (tapeworms).[1] Members of this order are gut parasites of vertebrates. They infect mammals as their definitive hosts and use either copepods (a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat, e.g. Spirometra) or both copepods and fish as in the broadfish tapeworm as intermediate hosts.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q11812256 entry