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SPECIES OF FLAT WORMS

There are about 20,000 species of the flat worm

AnnelidaBristle worms

Ragworms

Earthworms

Leeches

Allies

MesozoaParasites found in squids

and octopus .

CLOSE RELATIVES TO FLAT WORMS

 Pseudoceros bifurcus

video

UNIQUE

Pseudoceros monostichos

They are mostly in Comoros Islands, Madagascar, and Heron and One Tree Islands in the Central Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

Location on earth

Bandos Rock, Bandos, North Male Atoll, Maldives

Length of the worm about 25 mm

Depth in the sea about 14 m

Dicrocoelium dendriticum

UNIQUE

The lancet liver fluke is a parasite fluke that tends to live in cattle or other mammals. There disaease Dicrocoeliasis. It was discovered in 1819.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2009/JohnThomas_Dicrocoeliasis/Dicrocoelium%20dendriticum%20ParaSite.htm

http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~

bu6/flat0336.html

http://eol.org/pages/2942107/overview

http://www.darwinsgalapagos.com/animals/platyhelminthes_flatworms.htm

http://poster.4teachers.org/view/poster.php?poster_id=379778

http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Octopus_(Villager

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http://www.th.all.biz/squid-g29992

http://kentschools.net/cooltechred/segmented-body-with-suckers-at-each-end

/

http://www.agmdiscountfishing.co.uk/dichoso-ragworm-earthworm-6pcs-p-3710.html

http://www.oceanwideimages.com/categories.asp?cID=221

http://books.google.com/books?id=d4GQlYzode8C&pg=PA706&lpg=PA706&dq=relatives+of+mesozoa&source=bl&ots=l5EoU8MEuX&sig=7OS9tdLbBK2ooOmPG_yak2sw518&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kasxU97RLMifyQGIkICwCw&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=relatives%20of%20mesozoa&f=false

SOURCES

KEY CHARACTERISTICS

Platyhelminthes reproduce as hermaphrodites. Most species live in all major habitats and are parasites of other animals eating mostly small animals and other smaller species of animals.

FAMILIES OF THE FLATWORM

Some close relatives to the flatworm is leeches and allies. One of the leeches traits is that they are parasites and can ruin a humans body. One of the common characteristics of the earthworm is earthworms help to fertilize the soil by bringing nutrients up towards the surface.

earthworm leech

FUN FACTS

• Flatworms can be found in both types of waters, fresh and salt.

• Most flatworms are female and male as their gender.

• There is only one opening in their body and is used for eating and is also the anus.

• Flatworms can live through pollution.

• One of the species of flatworms, the tapeworm, can be longer than a school bus.

• Another species, the fluke, is only a few millimeters long.

• Flukes can produce up more than 500,000 of embryos.

SOURCES

• http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/insects/worms/worms_flat.html

• http://poster.4teachers.org/view/poster.php?poster_id=379778

• http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/JUL05/Mimic_Flatworm(Pseudobiceros_sp).html

• http://blog.nus.edu.sg/lsm2251student/2010/04/15/flatworms-small-but-deadly/

• http://www.biologyjunction.com/earthworm_dissection.htm

• http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-giant-leech/367672