Cestidæ (TÆNIATE)

Band or strap-shaped Ctenophores, of which "Venus's Girdle" is typical. The body is greatly elongated in the stomach plane, the oral and aboral poles lying in opposite margins at the middle of the band. The tentacular furrow extends on the sides toward both ends of the body, and in it the tentacle is attached, leaving the lateral tentacles free. Cestoda (CESTODES, TAPEWORMS). Elongated, usually segmented, Platy helm int hes, with no mouth or intestines, and having organs for attachment, at the anterior end. The body is really a chain of proglottides, which, as fast as they become sexually mature, usually become detached. See TÆNIADÆ and BOTH RIO CEP HALIDE.