The tapeworm group, lacking an alimentary canal and including species with tissue larvae and intestinal adults.
The developing attachment region of certain larval tapeworms, capable of giving rise to the scolex of an adult in a suitable definitive host.
A larval bladder with multiple protoscolices, distinct from a single-scolex cysticercus and the brood capsule architecture of a typical hydatid cyst.
Historical designation for the cerebral coenurus larva associated chiefly with Taenia multiceps; it denotes a larval form rather than an independent adult species.
A larval cyst; human hydatid cysts commonly involve the liver or lungs.
The living inner parasite layer of an echinococcal hydatid cyst, distinguished from its laminated layer and the surrounding host tissue.
The classical cystic-hydatid organism; historical usage often covers a complex of organisms distinguished more finely in current classification.
The broad fish tapeworm, historically described under different generic names.
The beef tapeworm.
The pork tapeworm. Human intestinal adults and tissue cysticerci follow different routes of infection.
A bladder-like larval form with an invaginated scolex, occurring in the life cycles of some Taenia.
Historical name for the cysticercus of Taenia solium; not an independent modern species.
A reproductive unit of the body of many adult tapeworms.
The attachment region of a tapeworm.

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