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The haptor is a single disc with one to three pairs of large hooks and many marginal hooklets.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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Their bodies are dorso-ventrally flattened and have a large, posterior attachment organ called a haptor which bears hooks and suckers allowing them to cling tenaciously to their host.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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When the parasite is not attached to its host, it is able to locomote using an inch worm-like motion with the aid of its oral adhesive glands and haptor.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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