Name
Taenia
solitaria o tenia
Framing
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Subphylum: Rhabditophora
Class: Cestoda
Genus: Taenia
Habitat
Endoparasite (adults in the gut of vertebrates; larval forms in tissues of arthropod or vertebrate intermediate hosts)
Feeding
Fluidophage.
Distribution
Cosmopolitan
Additional information
Parasitic (endoparasitic). Solitary. In their adult form, like all flatworms, they are "worms" flattened in width, like a ribbon, with no general cavity, covered by a syncytial structure called tegument, unlike the cuticle of nematodes. Their length varies, depending on the species, from 50 cm to more than 15 m.
Additional information
Bibliography
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- Mehlhorn H. (2016). Taenia saginata. In: Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Mehlhorn H. (eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43978-4_3092
- Sato MO, Sato M, Yanagida T, Waikagul J, Pongvongsa T, et al. (2018). Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, Taenia asiatica, their hybrids and other helminthic infections occurring in a neglected tropical diseases' highly endemic area in Lao PDR. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 12(2), e0006260. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006260
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