Species Profile
Ascaris lumbricoides
Roundworm
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumAschelminthes
ClassNematoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Ascaris lumbricoides lives in human intestine.
Endoparasitic and cosmopolitan.
Causes ascariasis.
Size & Structure
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Long cylindrical body
02
Tapering ends
03
Male smaller than female
04
Cream-coloured
Ascaris lumbricoides — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Pseudocoelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Circumpharyngeal nerve ring
- Excretory organ
- Renette cells
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Anaerobic
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Absent
- Skeleton structure
- Cuticular exoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Human intestinal parasite
Part of parasite life cycle
Influences host nutrition
Economic Importance
Medical importance
Public health concern
Used in parasitology studies