Species Profile
Fasciola hepatica
Sheep liver fluke
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumPlatyhelminthes
ClassTrematoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Fasciola hepatica lives as an endoparasite.
It requires snail as intermediate host.
Economically important parasite.
Size & Structure
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Leaf-shaped body
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Anterior oral sucker
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Posterior ventral sucker
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Brownish colour
Fasciola hepatica — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular
- 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
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Parasite of herbivores
Affects host population
Part of parasite life cycles
Economic Importance
Causes economic loss in livestock
Veterinary importance
Medical parasitology relevance