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Phylum Platyhelminthes. Taenia echinococcus (1). Scolice (2). Porzione di cisti con cisti figlie (3). Scolici giovani in una cisti secondaria (4). Uncini (5).

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Phylum Platyhelminthes. Taenia echinococcus (1). Scolice (2). Porzione di cisti con cisti figlie (3). Scolici giovani in una cisti secondaria (4). Uncini (5).

Description

Class Cestoda
Taenia echinococcus
Adult tapeworm, small in size, with 3 proglottids, lives in the intestine of a dog or other carnivore.
Scolex with 4 suckers and a rostrellum with a crown of hooks.
Part of a hydatid cyst developing in humans, sheep, monkeys, and cattle.
Young scolices in a daughter cyst.
Hooks isolated from rostrellum.

Format


image/jpeg (700.31 kB)
wallchart (height: 94 cm, width: 75 cm)

Object languages:

Latin

Sources


• Cassettiera

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