The Polycladida represents a highly diverse clade of free-living marine flatworms. They are known from the littoral to the sublittoral zone, and many species are common from coral reefs. Only a few sp
Bedford's Flatworm
Marine flatworm, Pseudobiceros sp.
Yellow papillae flatworm, Thysanozoon nigropapillosum
Platyhelminthes is a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates commonly called flatworms or flat worms. Being acoelomates, and having no specialised circulatory an
Polycladida
…The Polycladida represents a highly diverse clade of free-living marine flatworms. They are known from the littoral to the sublittoral zone (extending to the deep hot vents), and many species are common from coral reefs. Only a few…
Platyhelminthes diversity
Various parasitic flatworms from Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
The turbellarian Pseudoceros dimidiatus
Life cycle of the eucestode Taenia: Inset 5 shows the scolex, which has four Taenia solium, a disk with hooks on the end. 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.