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Phylum Nematoda. common name “round worms” cylindrical in shape, typical long worm-like animals. have a CUTICLE secreted by an epidermis. Digestive tract is complete. large group of about 12,000 species most free-living Dioecious = sexes separate. J 2. J 3. J 4. adult.
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common name “round worms” cylindrical in shape, typical long worm-like animals
have a CUTICLE secreted by an epidermis. Digestive tract is complete. large group of about 12,000 species most free-living Dioecious = sexes separate
J2 J3 J4 adult usually involve larval or juvenile stages which look generally like adults molting = ecdysis no reproduction here J1 infective stage
OLD TERMINOLOGY rhabdidiform larvae (looks like Rhabditus sp.) esophagus that constricts posterity and then enlarge into a bulb. often newly hatched
filariform larvae longer and thinner with an esophagus not constricted or bulbed. often infective form
some free-living larvae some symbiotic larvae in intermediate hosts some undergo “migration” through host body
intestinal Ascaris lumbricoides Enterobius vermicularis Ancylostoma duodenale hookworm Necator americanus hookworm Trichuris trichura Strongyloides stercoralis cutaneous larva migrans blood and tissue flarial worms Wuchereria bancrofti Onchocerca volvulus Loa loa Mansonella ozzardi Dracunculs medinensis Trichinella spiralis tissue phase