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70 Introduction to the Endoparasites<br />

coenurus, hydatid cyst, or tetrathyridium; metacestode<br />

type is characteristic of the cestode species involved.<br />

• Definitive host be<strong>com</strong>es infected by ingesting the<br />

infected intermediate host; extra-intestinal migration<br />

in the definitive host does not occur.<br />

PSEUDOPHYLLIDEA<br />

• Stages include operculated egg, coracidium (ciliated<br />

hexacanth embryo), metacestode, adult.<br />

• Eggs are expelled from the gravid proglottid; pass<br />

out with feces.<br />

• Coracidium hatches in water; first intermediate host<br />

is a copepod; ingested coracidium develops to procercoid<br />

(metacestode).<br />

• Copepod is ingested by the second intermediate<br />

host; procercoid develops into another metacestode<br />

stage called the plerocercoid.<br />

• Definitive host be<strong>com</strong>es infected by ingesting the intermediate<br />

host containing the plerocercoid; extra-intestinal<br />

migration in the definitive host does not occur.<br />

Trematodes<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are two types of trematodes—digenes and monogenes.<br />

Monogenetic trematodes have direct life cycles<br />

and are primarily ectoparasites of aquatic vertebrates.<br />

Digenetic trematodes have indirect life cycles and are

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