What is the common name of these animals?
tapeworms
Where do the adults typically live? The juveniles?
adults: digestive tracts of vertebrates
juveniles: in the bodies of other animals
What is the name of the head of the tapeworm?
scolex
What is the name of the body parts of a tapeworm?
proglottids
Where are they found?
worldwide
What habitat are they found in?
Internal parasites
A. tapeworm
B. uterus
C. ovary
D. yolk gland
E. testes
F. genital pore
What Phylum and class is it under?
what is another name for it?
phylum: platyhelminthes
class: Cestoidea
name: tapeworms
A. rostellum (has the black hooks)
B. scolex
C. suckers
D. developing proglottids
A. sperm duct
B. genital pore
C. vagina
D. yolk gland
E. testes
F. Uterus
G. ovary