Vocabulary
- Parenchyma : mesodermally derived tissue especially used in filling spaces.
- Rhabdites: rodlike cells that protect the body by creating a mucus sheath.
- Adhesive glands: open up to produce a chemical, which then helps the organism stick to its substrate.
- Releaser glands: secrete a chemical that help dissolve the attachment of the organism.
- Cocoon: hard capsule that encloses eggs.
- Muller's larva: this larva has ciliated extensions that aid in feeding and movement.
- Protonephridia:A network of fine tubules that run the length of a tubellarian, along its
- Flame cells: These have numerous cilia that project into the lumen of the tubule
- Nephridiopore: Where the tubules merge and open to the outside of the body wall through a minute opening
- Auricles: Otherwise classified as "sensory lobes" project from the side of the head. (Touch) (Detect water currents)(Chemicals) All detected by sensory lobes
- Ocelli: The plural of Oculus and is classified as the eyespots of a tuberllarian
- Zooids: These regenerate missing parts after separating during reproduction
- Oncomiracidium: A ciliated larva that hatches from the egg and swims to another host fish, where it attaches with its opisthaptor and develops into an adult
- Flukes: The term of classification for the class tremetoda, this describes their wide, flat shape.
- Tegument: Is the outer shell of a fluke
- Opisthaptor: Is strong attachment organ, allows a fluke to hook onto its host
- Oral sucker: Adhesive organ on the anterior side
- Acetabulum: Is the adhesive organ below the Oral sucker
- Operculum: Lidlike hatch for digenetic trematodes
- Miracidium: A ciliated larva that swims into the freshwater from the operculum
- Sporocysts: Are baglike and are embryonic cells that develop into the rediae
- Rediae: These are the daughter sporocysts that come about during asexual reproduction.
- Cercariae: This is the larva stage, they leave the snail and swims freely until it finds its final host
- Metacercaria: