Taenia solium (The pork tapeworm) · It is highly elongated, tape or ribbon-like, digenetic endoparasite . · Adult lives in the intestinal mucosa of the small intestine of man (primary or definitive or final h…
Fasciola hepatica (Sheep liver fluke) · Digenetic endoparasite, cosmopolitan in distribution. · Adult Fasciola lives in the liver and bile passages of the sheep (the primary host) . It may also occur in other vertebrates like …
(Gr., Platys- flat + helminth- worm) Aristotle mentioned tapeworms. Gegenbaur (1859AD) placed flatworms in a separate group and gave the term Platyhelminthes . Phylum Platyhelminthes includes about 13,000 species. Examples o…