CESTODES

Taenia saginata

Egg: Three pairs of hooklets, hexacanth embryo, radial Gravid proglottid: Longer than wide, 15-30 lateral
Scolex: 4 suckers, Absent Rostellum and hooks
striations on yellow-brown embryophore branches on each side of uterus

Taenia solium

Egg: Three pairs of hooklets, hexacanth embryo, radial Scolex: 4 suckers, Present Rostellum, Gravid proglottid: Somewhat square, 7-15 lateral
striations on yellow-brown embryophore double crown hooks branches on each side of uterus

Hymenolepis diminuta

Egg:Three pairs of hooklets, hexacanth embryo, present polar

Scolex: Four suckers, present rostellum but no hooks Gravid proglottid: Twice as wide as long, saclike uterus
thickenings with no filaments, present colorless embryohore
filled with eggs
 Hymenolepis nana
Egg:
-Three pairs of hooklets
-Hexacanth embryo
-Present polar thickenings
and filaments,
-Present colorless
embryophore
Diphyllobothrium latum
Egg:
Shape: somewhat oblong
Embryo: undeveloped
Shell:Smooth,yellow brown
Other features:Opperculum
on one end; terminal knob
on opposite end

Scolex: Scolex:
Four suckers,
Two sucking grooves
present short rostellum,
Almond shaped
present hooks in one row

Gravid Proglottid:
Gravid Proglottid:
Twice as wide as long, Wider than long;
saclike uterus filled with Central, rosette
eggs uterine structure

Dipylidium caninum Echinococcus granulosus

Cyst:
Present cyst wall; multiple
Egg:
germinal tissue layers
5-30 eggs in
-Fluid filled barrier
enclosed packet
-Daughter cyst
6 hooked oncosphere
-Brood capsules
-Hydatid sand

Scolex:
4 suckers Adult:
Rostellum: Present; club- Scolex: 4 suckers with
shaped, with 1-7 circlets of 36 hooks
spines Small neck
No Hooks Three proglottid-immature,
mature, and gravid

Note: This form is not

Gravid Proglottid: typically seen in humans but
pumpkin seed is commonly found in
Full of eggs in enclosed canines, which serve as
embryonic membrane definitive hosts.
 TREMATODES
Clonorchis sinensis Schistosoma spp.

Egg: Schistosoma mansoni

Egg:
-Developed miracidium -Oblong
-Present operculum -Developed miracidium
-Distinct shoulders -Large, lateral spine
-Small knob
-Opposite operculum

Schistosoma japonicum
Egg:
-Somewhat roundish
Adult: -Developed miracidium
-Small, lateral spine
Each end of adult worm is
narrower than the
midportion of the body

Schistosoma haematobium
Egg:
-Somewhat oblong
-Developed miracidium
-Large terminal spine
Paragonimus westermani
Egg: somewhat oval
-Undeveloped miracidium
surrounded by a thin smooth
shell
-Prominent operculum with
shoulders
Schistosoma spp. Adult:
-Obvious terminal shell
-Rounder in appearance
thickening opposite
-The male surrounds the
operculum
S. mansoni S. japonicum
female completely
facilitating copulation

Note: The adults of

Adult: Schistosoma are the only
-Oval trematodes that have
-Red-brown colored separate sexes
-Cuticle possesses spine

Female S. haematobium Male S. haematobium

 Fasciolopsis buski Fasciola hepatica

Egg: Egg:

-Somewhat oblong -Somewhat oblong

-Undeveloped miracidium -Undeveloped miracidium
-Presence of -Presence of
distinct operculum distinct operculum

Adult: Adult:
-Somewhat oblong -Equipped with shoulders
-5cm by 1.5 cm -3cm by 1 cm

Heterophyses heterophyses Metagonimus yokogawai

Egg: Egg:
-Contents: developing -Contents: developing
miracidium miracidium
-Operculum: Present -Operculum: Present
-Shoulders: present but -Shoulders: present but
discrete discrete
-Small knob: may be absent -Small knob: may be absent
-Shell thickness: thick -Shell thickness: thin

Adult:
-Pyriform in shape
Adult: -With tapering at the
-Pyriform in shape anterior end
-Grayish in color -Tiny layer of scaly spines
-Protected by an outer layer covering (heavily distributed
of fine spines that are scaly over the anterior end)
in appearance -Rounding at the posterior
-1.0 by 0.5 mm end
-1.5 by 0.5 mm