Pseudophyllidea

Pseudophyllidea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Subclass:	Eucestoda
Order:	Pseudophyllidea

Pseudophyllid

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The order has been discovered by phylogenetic analysis to be

Eggs have one flat end (the operculum) and a small knob on the other end. All pseudophyllid cestodes have a procercoid stage in their life cycle, and most also have a plerocercoid stage.

The majority of genera in this group have fish as their definitive hosts, but the most important

The hermaphroditic Schistocephalus solidus parasitizes fish and fish-eating water birds, with a cyclopoid copepod as the first intermediate host.

When humans harbor

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