platyhelminthes

platyhelminthes   Dan platyhelminthes

Platyhelminthes are bilaterally symmetrical, soft-bodied and unsegmented animals, and are known as the �flatworms� because they are often dorso-ventrally

Platyhelminthes are also known as flatworms, belonging to the kingdom Animalia These are triploblastic, acoelomate, dorsoventrally flattened, Platyhelminthes have captivated the imagination of biologists for centuries Indeed, planarian flatworms were used as experimental models

20bet Characteristics of Phylum Platyhelminthes · They are both parasitic and free-living in nature · They have a bilateral symmetry · They have 5 Platyhelminthes Flatworms with a total of about 22 500 species distributed worldwide (75% of the marine, limnic, or terrestrial species are