WormMine: LifeStage WBls:0000717

• Definition: A larval stage of some cestodes, including Hymenolepis sp. The cysticercoid is a type of cyst that is found in free form as well as being tissue-enclosed.
• Primary Identifier: WBls:0000717
• Public Name: cysticercoid stage

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Remark	Definition	Other Name	Public Name	Primary Identifier
	Any developmental stage of a Cestode (tapeworm).		Cestoda life stage	WBls:0000712
	The larval stages of a tapeworm, beginning with the metamorphosis of the oncosphere and ending with the first evidence of sexuality in the adult worm. Includes the procercoid and plerocercoid stages of pseudophyllid cestodes, and the cysticercus, cysticercoid, coenurus, and hydatid stages of cyclophyllidean cestodes.		metacestode	WBls:0000716

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