Species Profile
Echinococcus
Dog tapeworm
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumPlatyhelminthes
ClassCestoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Echinococcus lives in intestine of dogs.
Humans act as accidental hosts.
Medically very important parasite.
Size & Structure
01
Very small body
02
Scolex with hooks
03
Few proglottids
04
White colour
Echinococcus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present (few proglottids)
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Absent
- Nervous system
- Ladder-like nervous system
- Excretory organ
- Flame 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
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Parasite of mammals
Maintains parasite life cycles
Zoonotic transmission
Economic Importance
Causes hydatid disease
Major medical concern
Veterinary and public health importance