Cestoda: Tapeworms
- Ribbon-like
- Parasitic
- Habitat in digestive tracts in vertebrates
- About 6,000 species
- Have body segments known as proglottids
- Have scolex which are used as hooks and suckers to attach onto its host
- Tegument covers body
- Absorb nutrients through their body
- Some come from beef or pork products
- Hermaphroditic; self-fertilizing
- Dangerous organisms potential of causing great sickness
Examples:
- Eucestoda
- Dipylidium
- Cestodaria