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(PLATYHELMINTHES: Cestoda)In Caryophyllidea, adult Archigetes that reaches sexual maturity complete with cercomer.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
neotenic procercoid
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procercoid — n. [Gr. pro, before; kerkos, tail; eidos, like] (PLATYHELMINTHES: Cestoda) The metacestode developing from the oncosphere, containing a body proper and caudal vestige of the oncosphere, the cercomere; see neotenic procercoid … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
neotenic plerocercoid — (PLATYHELMINTHES: Cestoda) All adult Caryophyllidea, whose adult developmental forms are thought to be extinct; exception: Archigetes; see neotenic procercoid … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
