Gyrocotylidea

Gyrocotylidea
Gyrocotyle rugosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Subclass:	Cestodaria
Order:	Gyrocotylidea Poche, 1926
Subgroups
See text.

Gyrocotylidea is an order of Cestoda (tapeworms). ^[1] Members of this order are parasites of vertebrates, living in the coelom (the body cavity). ^[2] Gyrocotylidea are a subspecies of the tapeworm that mainly parasitisises fishes and turtles. They do not have a gut, thus being classified with cestodes. ^[3]

References

1. Bray, Rod (2018). "Gyrocotylidea". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 19 May 2018.
2. Cheng, Thomas C. (2012). General Parasitology. Elsevier Science. pp. 469–472. ISBN   978-0-323-14010-2.
3. Bandoni, Susan Marie (1985). Phylogenetic analyses of the Amphilinidea and Gyrocotylidea : (Cercomeria: Brooks, 1982) (Thesis). University of British Columbia.