Trematodes of the Schistomatidae family have separate sexes (unusual for Platyhelminthes). The males are ... The Monogenea and the Trematoda (above) are commonly known as flukes. They differ in two main characteristics. The Monogenea are mainly ectoparasites of fish and have a simple life-cycle involving only one host;
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Discover Life's encyclopedia page about the biology, natural history, ecology, identification and distribution of Platyhelminthes - Flatworms, Tapeworms, Flukes ... Platyhelminthes consists of the unsegmented flatworms, which includes both free-living and parasitic species. They have bilateral ... trematodes are the flukes,
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Members of the phyla Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, and Rotifera have ... When raw or poorly cooked fish is eaten the young flukes are released from their cysts by digestive juices in the stomach. Once out of the stomach they make their way up the common bile duct to the liver where they attach and suck the host's blood.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on fluke (flatworm), any member of the invertebrate class Trematoda (phylum Platyhelminthes), a group of parasitic flatworms that probably evolved from free-living forms millions of years ago. ... any member of the invertebrate class Trematoda (phylum Platyhelminthes), a group of...
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As with other members of Platyhelminthes, flukes or trematodes are relatively simple, soft-bodied, bilaterially symmetrical, invertebrate animals that are acoelomates characterized by having three germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm) and lacking respiratory and circulatory systems.
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The simplest animals that are bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic (composed of three fundamental cell layers) are the Platyhelminthes, the flatworms. Flatworms have no body cavity other than the gut (and the smallest free-living forms may even lack that!) and lack an anus; ... Flukes, like other parasitic flatworms,
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The flatworms , known in scientific literature as Platyhelminthes (from the Greek πλατύ, platy , meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), helminth- , meaning worm) are a phylum of relatively...
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Other Names for Platyhelminthes ... Flatworms, tapeworms, flukes ... Platyhelminthes Branch Page...
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Associated with PLATYHELMINTHES: ... Platyhelminthes may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level ... Class TREMATODA (flukes) 17 6 4 48...
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Classification: Kingdom Animalia: Phylum Cnidaria ... Cnidarians all have a gastrovascular cavity functioning as the mouth and anus. Food is captured by tentacles and pushed into this cavity for digestion. Cnidarians are dimorphic. They exist in two body ... Polyps are cylindrical with the gastrovascular sac facing up.
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