Zoology Museum

Post Graduates and Research Department of Zoology, V.O. Chidambaram College, Tuticorin 628 008 Tamil Nadu

He. 15 / He. 22 Avitellina

            Kingdom         - Animalia

            Phylum            - Platyhelminthes

            Class                - Cestoda

            Order               - Cyclophyllidea

            Family            - Anoplocephalidae

            Genus              - Avitellina

 Characters:

            3 m in length. Segments are short and cylindrical and at the posterior end segmentation is not clear. Each proglottid contains single set of reproductive organ. The genital pore opens irregularly alternate. In the gravid segment eggs are passed into the par uterine organ (thick walled sac like organ). The par uterine organ resembles snail shell. Pyriform apparatus is absent.

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