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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Platyhelminthes: Order: ... All species of Dugesiidae live in freshwater environments and have a dorsoventrally flattened body ...
Inset 6 shows the tapeworm's whole body, in which the scolex is the tiny, round tip in the top left corner, and a mature proglottid has just detached. These are often called tapeworms because of their flat, slender but very long bodies – the name " cestode " is derived from the Latin word cestus , which means "tape".
A body plan, Bauplan (pl. German: Baupläne), or ground plan is a set of morphological features common to many members of a phylum of animals. [1] The vertebrates share one body plan, while invertebrates have many. This term, usually applied to animals, envisages a "blueprint" encompassing aspects such as symmetry, layers, segmentation, nerve ...
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The body of liver flukes is leaf-like and flattened. The body is covered with a tegument. They are hermaphrodites having complete sets of both male and female reproductive systems. They have simple digestive systems and primarily feed on blood. The anterior end has the oral sucker opening into the mouth.
Monogenea are Platyhelminthes, so are among the lowest invertebrates to possess three embryonic germ layers—endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm. In addition, they have a head region that contains concentrated sense organs and nervous tissue (brain).
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The "Platyzoa" / ˌ p l æ t ɪ ˈ z oʊ. ə / are a group of protostome unsegmented animals proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1998.Cavalier-Smith included in Platyzoa the phylum Platyhelminthes (or flatworms), and a new phylum, the Acanthognatha, into which he gathered several previously described phyla of microscopic animals.