Animalia > Platyhelminthes > Cestoda > Cyclophyllidea > Taeniidae > Taenia > Taenia hydatigena

Taenia hydatigena (thin-necked bladderworm)

Synonyms: Taenia tenuicollis (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Taenia hydatigena (thin-necked bladderworm, causative agent of cysticercosis) is one of the larval forms of the canine and feline tapeworm. This infection has a worldwide geographic distribution. Humans with taeniasis can infect other humans or animal intermediate hosts by eggs and gravid proglottids passed in the feces.
View Wikipedia Record: Taenia hydatigena

Providers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0