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Platyhelminthes Chapter 8 Platyhelminthes 34,000 flatworms Bilateral Symmetry Triplobastic Acoelomate nerve network with pair of ganglia eye spots (ocelli) excretory system circulatory system with blood Class Turbellaria mostly free-living in aquatic or moist terrestrial environments; some are symbiotic or parasitic Trematoda flukes all parasitic Cestoda tapeworms all parasitic Larval Stages 1 Unicellular (acellular) Multicellular (metazoa) protozoan protists Poorly defined Diploblastic Triploblastic tissue layers Cnidaria Porifera Ctenophora Placozoa Uncertain Acoelomate Coelomate Pseudocoelomate Priapulida Rotifera Chaetognatha Platyhelminthes Nematoda Gastrotricha Rhynchocoela (Nemertea) Kinorhyncha Entoprocta Mesozoa Acanthocephala Loricifera Gnathostomulida Nematomorpha Protostomes Uncertain (misfits) Deuterostomes Annelida Mollusca Echinodermata Brachiopoda Arthropoda Hemichordata Phoronida Onychophora Bryozoa Chordata Pentastomida Pogonophora Sipuncula Echiura Figure 14.06c 2 Figure 14.06b Incomplete gut mouth, pharynx, gut Figure 14.06a Protonephridia 3 Figure 14.01 packing tissue with cells & fibers Figure 14.03 Gland cell Mucus 4 Figure 14.04 5 Figure 14.02 Figure 14.co marine polyclad Thysanozoon nigropapillosum 6 Figure 14.10 marine polyclad Pseudobiceros hancockanus Figure 14.11 acoel turbellarians Waminoa sp. covering soft coral Great Barrier Reef 7 Figure 14.09a Eye spot (ocellus) Planaria Auricle Tricladida Figure 14.08a Tricladia freshwater turbellarian 8 Figure 14.09b Polycladida Figure 14.01 Class: Trematoda 9 Figure 14.05 tegument Fasciola hepatica Figure 14.07 Liver fluke: Clonorchis sinensis oral & ventral suckers pharynx, muscular esophagus, two long unbranched intestinal ceca monoecious 10 Figure 14.12 Liver fluke: Clonorchis sinensis Figure 14.13 11 Figure 14.14 180 pairs of Schistosoma mansoni found in this liver Figure 14.15 lung fluke: Paragonimus westermani 12 Figure 14.02 Class: Cestoda Figure 14.18 13 Figure 14.20 Figure 14.19 14 Figure 14.22 Dog tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus Figure 14.17 Tegument of Echinococcus granulosus 15 Figure 14.21 Pig tapeworm: Taenia solium cysticerci infection in brain Figure 14.28 16 Phylum: Nemertea (Rhynchocoela) Ribbon Worms 1000 species Nemertean Characters 1) proboscis—hollow extrusible organ for prey capture 2) complete gut— mouth-digestive tract-anus 3) advanced circulatory system with contractile vessel walls for irregular flow 4) true excretory system 17.
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