ANIMAL PARASITISM 765 



Other important cestodes are Hymenolepis nana of man and mice; 

 the broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllodothrium latum, which man gets 

 by eating raw or poorh^ cooked fish ; the peculiar Echinococcus granu- 

 losus, adult in dogs, whose cysticercus stages are dangerous parasites 

 of man (man being the intermediate host in this case) ; and many 

 tapeworms of domestic animals, such as Dipylidium caninum of dogs, 

 Thysanosoma and Moniezia of sheep, goats, and cattle, and majiy 

 others. 



