PHYLUM PLATYHELM1NTHES 



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by some fluid derived from their host. Pigment occurs in some 

 of the ectoparasitic forms. 



The relationship of the Cestoda to the Trematoda is, as will be 

 subsequently shown, fairly close ; but though there are connecting 

 forms between the two classes, the shape of the average Cestode 

 is very different from that of such an average Trematode as the 

 Liver-Fluke. The body of an ordinary Cestode is of great length 

 sometimes extending even to a good many feet and relatively 

 narrow, being compressed into the form of a ribbon. One end, 

 which it will be convenient to designate anterior (though it may 



rb 



FIG. 203. Tetrarhynchus. n. nervous 

 system ; r. proboscides ; rs. sheaths, 

 with their muscles (rb.). (From 

 Leuckart, after Pintner.) 



FIG. 204. Taenia echinococcus 



(After Cobbold.) 



not, perhaps, correspond to the anterior end in a Trematode or a 

 Turbellarian), is, in most cases, attached to the host by means of 

 suckers and hooks placed on a rounded lobe, the head or scale?, 

 connected with the body by a narrow part or neck. The head is 

 usually rather radially hhan bilaterally symmetrical, with four 

 suckers and a circlet of hooks. The hooks, when present, are borne 

 on a longer or shorter retractile process, the rostellum, the long 

 axis of which is in line with the long axis of the body. In Bothrio- 

 cephalus and allied forms a pair of longitudinal grooves take the 

 place of suckers, and there are no hooks. In many Cestodes para- 



