Samiya Haque Rifa, Author at EazyBio

Phylum Gastrotricha

Gastrotricha ( gas-tro-tri’ -ka) (N. L. fr. Gr. gaster, gastros, stomach or belly, + thrix, trichos, hair) includes small, ventrally […]

The first and only micrognathozoan , Micrognathozoa specimen, was collected from Greenland in 1994 but not formally described until 2000.

Rotifera (ro-tif -e-ra) (L. rota, wheel, fera, those that bear) derivet heir name from the characteristic ciliated crown, or corona,

Gnathostomulids are delicate wormlike animals less than 2 mm long . The first known species of Gnathostomulida (nath’o-sto-myu’lid-a) (Gr. gnathos,

Nemerteans (nem-er -te-ans) are often called ribbon worms. Their name (Gr. Nemertes, one of the Nereids, unerring one) refers to

The name Mesozoa (mes-o-zo -a) (Gr. mesos, in the middle+ zoon, animal) was coined by an early investigator (vanBeneden, 1876)

Taenia saginata (Gr. tainia, band, ribbon) is called the beef tapeworm, but it lives as an adult in the human

Schistosomiasis, infection with blood flukes of genus Schistosoma (Gr. schistos,divided, + soma, body), ranks among the major infectious dis eases

Trematodes are all parasitic flukes, and as adults they are almost all found as endoparasites of vertebrates. They are chiefly

The released egg is protected by a fairly tough chorion or egg case. Within this the cytoplasm and yolk are