Species Profile
Schistosoma
Blood fluke
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumPlatyhelminthes
ClassTrematoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Schistosoma inhabits blood vessels of humans.
Uses snail as intermediate host.
Major human parasite.
Size & Structure
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Elongated cylindrical body
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Male and female separate
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Male with gynecophoric canal
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Brownish colour
Schistosoma — 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 humans
Influences host population health
Part of aquatic parasite cycles
Economic Importance
Causes human disease
Medical importance
Public health concern