VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

RAILLIETINA SP.IN WILD BIRDS

• These tape worms are of large sized ones, consisting of ribbon like strobila with a large rostellum; Hundreds of tiny hammer shaped hooks with spiny suckers are present in these worms.
• A wide variety of dung and ground beetles act as intermediate hosts for these cestodes. Like other cestodes, these worms also lack a mouth or an alimentary canal and they feed by absorbing nutrients from the host’s intestinal tract through it’s characteristic long body wall.