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PLATYHELMINTHES

PLATYHELMINTHES. BY:gabe landers & carson kero. Species of flat worms. There are about 20,000 species of the flat worm. Close relatives to flat worms. Mesozoa Parasites found in squids and octopus. Annelida Bristle worms Ragworms Earthworms Leeches Allies. Unique.

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PLATYHELMINTHES

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  1. PLATYHELMINTHES BY:gabe landers & carsonkero

  2. Species of flat worms • There are about 20,000 species of the flat worm

  3. Close relatives to flat worms • Mesozoa • Parasites found in squids and octopus . • Annelida • Bristle worms • Ragworms • Earthworms • Leeches • Allies

  4. Unique • Pseudocerosbifurcus • video • Pseudocerosmonostichos They are mostly in Comoros Islands, Madagascar, and Heron and One Tree Islands in the Central Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

  5. Unique • Dicrocoeliumdendriticum The lancet liver fluke is a parasite fluke that tends to live in cattle or other mammals. There disaeaseDicrocoeliasis. It was discovered in 1819.

  6. Sources • http://poster.4teachers.org/view/poster.php?poster_id=379778 • http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Octopus_(Villager) • 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 • 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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

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