Archigetes
Genus of tapeworms
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Archigetes is a genus of tapeworms, that is unique among all tapeworms in that its species can mature in invertebrate hosts (Oligochaeta), in contrast to all other cestodes which have a vertebrate host. All five species were described as plerocercoids in oligochaetes, but two of them were also described as adults in cypriniform fishes.
| Archigetes | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Cestoda |
| Order: | Caryophyllidea |
| Family: | Capingentidae |
| Genus: | Archigetes Leuckart, 1878,[1] |