Species Profile
Dracunculus medinensis
Guinea worm
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumAschelminthes
ClassEnoplea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Dracunculus medinensis lives in subcutaneous tissue.
Transmitted by drinking contaminated water.
Near eradication globally.
Size & Structure
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Extremely long female
02
Thread-like body
03
Emerges through skin
04
Whitish colour
Dracunculus medinensis — 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
- 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 tissue parasite
Water-borne life cycle
Host-specific parasite
Economic Importance
Public health campaigns
Disease eradication success
Medical importance