Phylum Aschelminthes (Nematoda/Round worm)
MAIN CHARACTERSHABIT AND HABITAT
- Nematoda have a very wide distribution and they seem to have mastered almost every habitat.
- Free living nematodes are found in the sea, fresh water or in the soil in all kinds of environment.
- There are also many Parasitic nematodes found in all groups of Plants and animals.
- The Saprophagous species live in decomposing plant and animal bodies and in rotting fruits.
They have a bilaterally symmetrical, cylindrical body, glistening smooth surface. They are triploblastic.
EXTERNAL FEATURES
- They show no trace of segmentation.
- Most of the free living nematodes are less then a millimeter length.
- Some of the parasitic species attain a length of several meters e.g. Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis).
- They are usually long, round, tapered at both ends showing very little morphological diversity from species to species.
- The mouth of nematodes is modified for various modes of feeding such as cutting, tearing, piercing and sucking fluids from the host.
- Body is covered by cuticle, which moults only during the period of growth.
- The organs are packed in parenchyma when young, but later on it disappears in adult. So that organs lie in a fluid filled cavity. This cavity is termed as PSEUDOCOEL and it has not peritoneum.
- Muscles are only longitudinal.
- Excretory system has no flame cells.
- Alimentary canal is straight with ectodermal fore and hind gut and an endodermal mid gut.
- Sexes are generally separate.
- Gonades are tubular and continues with their ducts.
- Female organs are usually paired and open by vulva.
- Male organs are single and open into a cloaca.
- The life cycle of Parasitic species involves one, two or more hosts
Ascaris (Round worms), Hookworms and Thread worms etc.
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