Gyrocotylidea

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Gyrocotylidea
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Gyrocotyle rugosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Subclass: Cestodaria
Order: Gyrocotylidea
Poche, 1926
Subgroups

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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 is mainly a parasite of 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.
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