Name : Kresna Wahyu Arie Pradhana

NIM : 180210103090

Class : C

A table of the differences between classes in Platyhelminthes

Turbellaria Trematoda Cestoda

Other name Hairy worm Suction worm Tapeworm
Body shape Short flat Short flat Flat body, jagged
Body surface Ciliated body, No ciliated, cuticle No ciliated, cuticle
covered by epidermis covered, no covered, no
epidermis epidermis
Suction No suction There are two (in the There are four
mouth and head) skoleks
Have a suction
device (around the
mouth/ventral part)
equipped with chitin
teeth
Segmentation No segmentation No segmentation There is
Body length 5-25 cm segmentation
The eye point is The cestoda body
located in the dorsal consists of a skoleks
part of the head (head) with rostelum
The mouth is located (four suction
at the end of the devices) with hooks
esophagus which can composed of chitin,
be extended to catch proglotid (segments
food or body segments)
Adult worms have
genital pores behind
the mouth
 Way of life Free, carnivore Parasites Parasites in the
human digestive tract
Larva habitat Free in fresh water In the snail genus On pork
Lymnea
Adult habitat Free in fresh water Sheep and human Human
gallbladder
Digestion No digestion Mouth, muscular Lack of mouth and
pharynx, short digestive tract
esophagus, and short,
two-pronged
intestines
Nervous system Rope ladder, two eye The rope ladder Rope ladder
spots and auricle nervous system is
composed of
multiple ganglia near
the esophagus, two
dorsal nerves (back)
and various nerve
fibers
Motion tool Cilia, using muscles No motion tool No motion tool
with wave-like
movements (in the
ventral epidermis)
Excretion tool Fire cell Fire cell Fire cell
Respiration Osmosis Osmosis Osmosis
Reproduction Asexual by way of Sexual Hermaphrodite
transverse or fragmentation
longitudinal division
Sexual by copulation
Food No food Animal tissue or Taken from the host
body fluids by absorbing through
the surface of the
body