2/29/2024 0 Comments Flat worm kindsTricladida have fancy, three-branched guts (gastrovascular cavities) and are referred to by those in the inner circles as triclads or planarians, and Rhabdocoela have simple guts and are called Rhabdocoels, or, loosely, planarians. class Turbellaria is broken down into several orders, some of whose members only live in salt water, but two orders of flatworms that live in fresh water are Tricladida and Rhabdocoella. Most turbellarians are small-less than an inch long-and many are microscopic. Here’s the technical bit-within the phylum Platyhelminthes is the Cclass Turbellaria (the non-parasitic guys). OK-maybe not bugs, except for BOTW purposes… Although they have only primitive brains, planarians can learn some have green thumbs and because of their super-powers, they may have a leg up on this “immortality” thing. Planarians are easily overlooked, but amazing, critters. The majority of members of the phylum Platyhelminthes (the flatworms-a phylum that includes the notorious tapeworms and flukes) are parasitic planarians are labeled the only free-living (non-parasitic) flatworms in the bunch. Among the critters that the BugLady has been seeing in the Ephemeral Pond lately have been a variety of flatworms that are generally called planarians.
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