Eucestoda

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Eucestoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Subclass: Eucestoda
Orders

Aporidea
Caryophyllidea
Cyclophyllidea
Diphyllidea
Lecanicephalidea
Litobothridea
Nippotaeniidea
Proteocephalidea
Pseudophyllidea
Spathebothriidea
Tetraphyllidea
Trypanorhyncha

Eucestoda is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda. Its larvae are hexacanth (have six hooks on the head) in contrast to the decacanth (ten-hooked) Cestodaria.

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