由于襄尾蚴病对人的危害,所以猪肉绦虫是较为重要的。不能精确的鉴别两个虫种是低估它流行的可能原因之一。虽然两虫种可由头节和成熟节片的形态学特征来区别,但对粪便中孕节片的区别是困难的,而且不可能去区别两种虫卵。电泳测定表明利用它们在异构酶上有很小的结构差异而可借助生物化学的方法来进行分类,甚至可达到种内株的分类。该方法已用于鉴定脊椎动物某些 As cercariae disease harm to humans, so tapeworm is more important. Failure to accurately identify two species of insects is one of the possible reasons for underestimating their popularity. Although the two species can be distinguished by the morphological features of the head and the mature segments, it is difficult to distinguish between the feces in the feces and it is not possible to distinguish between the two eggs. Electrophoresis assays show that using their small structural differences in isomerase it is possible to classify by means of biochemical methods and even to achieve the classification of intraspecies. This method has been used to identify certain vertebrates