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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of the phylum Platyhelminthes. It describes the five classes within this phylum - Turbellaria, Monogenea, Trematoda, Cestoidea, and their defining anatomical and physiological features. The classes vary in whether they are free-living or parasitic and have different life cycles and reproductive strategies depending on their environment and lifestyle.

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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of the phylum Platyhelminthes. It describes the five classes within this phylum - Turbellaria, Monogenea, Trematoda, Cestoidea, and their defining anatomical and physiological features. The classes vary in whether they are free-living or parasitic and have different life cycles and reproductive strategies depending on their environment and lifestyle.

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    Phylum Platyhelminthes Class Turbellaria

    • Free-living in bottom of ponds, streams


    • Usually flattened dorsoventrally, triploblastic, and marine waters
    acoelomate, bilaterally symmetrical
    • They vary in color
    • Unsegmented worms (members of the class
    Cestoidea are strobilated) • They posses rhabdites in the epidermis for
    • Incomplete gut usually present (gut absent in protection
    Cestoidea) • Gas exchange and excretion occurs via
    • Somewhat cephalized, with an anterior diffusion
    cerebral ganglion and usually longitudinal
    • Two simple eyespot called ocelli used to
    nerve cords
    detect light
    • Protonephridia as excretory/osmoregulatory
    structures • Reproduced by transverse fission. Some
    are hermaphroditic
    • Most forms monoecious; complex
    reproductive systems • Planaria and Notoplana
    • Nervous system consists of a pair of anterior Class Monogenea
    ganglia with longitudinal nerve cords
    connected by transverse nerves and located •They are flukes with only one generation
    in the mesenchyme in their life cycle

    • The protonephridia that end in flame cells for •Commonly found attached to the gill
    excretion filaments of fishes
    • A pair of anterior ganglia with longitudinal •Opisthaptor, a posterior attachment
    nerve cords connected by transverse nerves. organ, enable them to anchor itself to the
    • There are over 20,000 species were identified.
    gill filament and feed on mucus, blood
    and epithelial cells.
    • Parasitic flatworms feeds on the nutrients of
    their host • They have a gastrovascular cavity •Gyrodactylus and Sphynura
    with mouth as a single opening for the
    Class Trematoda
    entrance of food and exit of wastes
    • Free-living flatworms derive nutrients from
    •Flat, oval to elongated body shape.
    scavenging or by eating other animals •All are parasitic
    • Flame cells are for removal of wastes •Tegument is the outer body wall made up
    • Ganglia and nerve cord is used for stimuli of glycocalyx that aids substances across
    the wall and it protects the flukes against
    • Some flatworms have eyespot used for light the host destructive enzymes.
    detection
    •Digestive tract has mouth, a muscular
    REPRODUCTION OF FLATWORMS
    pharynx, and pouches
    • Free-living flat worms reproduced via
    •Reproduction is complex
    asexual reproduction through binary fission
    • Most parasitic are hermaphroditic. They
    under sexual reproduction.
    Class Trematoda
    • They can be found either external or
    internal part of the host body
    • They have multiple host, primary host
    usually vertebrates and fresh water snails
    as intermediate host.
    • Example: Liver flukes (Fasciola hepatica),
    Blood flukes (Schistosoma spp.)
    Class Cestoidea
    • Commonly know as tape worm
    • They are obligate endoparasites
    • they have “ suckers ”
    • The body is divided into three regions:
    Scolex, strobila, and neck
    •The scolex holds the tapeworm tight to
    the intestinal walls of its definitive host
    •Strobila is consist of series of proglottids
    •Each proglottids contains reproductive
    structures
    •The mature reproductive are from middle
    to the posterior end.
    •The length of the body varies from 1mm
    to 25 m
    •Pair od lateral nerve cord in scolex
    extends towards the end of the strobili
    •Protonephridaila system is used for
    excretion
    •Example: Pork tape worm (Taenia solium)
    beef tapeworm (Taenia saginata

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