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Taenia soliwm

phylum -

platyhelminths -1.506kWh The


pong tapeworm

cross -

ccstodcl

subclass -

Eucestoaa
7.
saginatel → The
beef tapeworm
order Taenioidae
-

Taenia host
family Taenidae


-

Genus Taenia
secondary/intermediate
-

host
souium primaryhost
species final
-



human intestine Pig (sometimes dog)
and
sheep
Distribution →
cosmopolitan
Shape ,
size 2nd colouration

white in colour but



opaque
creamier , yellowish or

colouration is also
greyish
common .

→ A 5m
long
-


segments 1850
known as

proglottids segmentation]

pseudo metamerism

Body divided into scolex , Nele ,


and Sbobiua

Scoter :O
bro
→ anterior End
of body ,
it is
knob
-

like ,
adially symmetrical and Ooo to

9- Mm

open prominent
→ at mobile cone is called
round nt Rostellum
armed 22 to 32 curved chitinous hooks
arranged
with
,

in two rows or circles around its base .



hooks larger Each
of anterior circle are
measuring 0.14 to 0.18mm

and circle are smaller


posterior
beats
→ The broadest part of Scotch four hemispherical highly
muscular suctorial
acetabular
organs , the treasurers or

iii.≤ smaunoous
_ Rostellum

÷ £t¥¥?e÷ -
sinners

%yÉ[ large hooks

seen

suckers all void spines
are
of hooks or .


The scolex with the help hooks plies buried
In the host 's intestinal
ofmucosa
its and suckers
Ned

it is a well defined , short ,
narrow and unsegmented region

dorsoventrally flattened

termed
budding Zone growth zone , area of proliferation

as
, , ,

And area
of segmentation because it is the region where
-

segments or
proglottids constituting strobila ,
all budded

off and pushed backwards .

Strobila
- it
forms the main bulk
of body .

consists 800
of
I
proglottids
000
segments
-
or
-

A is unit part
progloltid of body enclosing a
complete set
-

a the

of genitalia
Anterior while those at posterior
proglottids are the
youngest
-

side are oldest .


Proglottids →
gravid or
Ripe
↳ mature
proglottids
Immature
proglottids
* immature
↳ These
comprises af about 200 anterior just behind the neck
↳ immature and devoid
youngest sexually
,
of Reproductive organs

.

They are short broader ,


than
long and
rectangular in outline .

* mature
↳ about 450 mature
proglottids forming the middle
part af
↳ strobila
large and
.

squarish in outline

.

The anterior 100 to 150 contains


proglottids only male

↳ while
reproductive organs
posterior
,

develops both
250 mature
proglottids male
and
female reproach've organs making them

hermaphrodite
↳ Each mature
proglottids more side bears a
tiny protuberance ,

gravid :O
↳ the oldest and the

lost
part 150 to 350 pnoglottid
they are
longer than broad an outline
↳ female
all the male and
the
reproductive organs have
uterus
degenerated
except highly branched full of fertilized eggs .

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