Gyrocotylidea

Gyrocotylidea is an order of Cestoda (tapeworms).^[1] Members of this order are parasites of vertebrates, living in the coelom (the body cavity).^[2] Gyrocotylidea are a subspecies of the tapeworm that mainly parasitisises fishes and turtles. They do not have a gut, thus being classified with cestodes. ^[3]

Gyrocotylidea
Gyrocotyle rugosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Subclass:	Cestodaria
Order:	Gyrocotylidea Poche, 1926
Subgroups
See text.