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Flatworms
 Flatworms
@ Belong to the phylum i
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(Plat = flat)
@ Jhere are three classes:
Jurbellaria
Jrematoda
Cestoda
 Characteristics of Flatworms
@ Jhey are

 
 (they don¶t have body
cavities)
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@ 0espiration through skin
@ ingle opening to digestive tract (i
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 Class Jurbellaria
@ pade-shaped head and two eyespots
@ Eat protozoans for scavenge
@ 

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@ £re 
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female reproductive parts)
@ Can reproduce by 

@ £re free-living
 Class Jrematoda
@ £re parasitic
flukes
@ Have suckers on
both ends of the
body
@ Can live inside or
outside of host
 Class Jrematoda
@ Nervous and excretory
systems like
turbellarians
@ Hermaphrodites
@ Have complex life
cycles
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 Class Cestoda
@ Parasitic
@ Japeworms
@ Long, ribbon-like
bodies
@ £bsorbs
nutrients from
host
@ Hermaphrodites
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0oundworms
 0oundworms
@ Belong to phylum Ñ


@ Pseudocoelomates (fluid filled body cavity)
@ lender bodies that taper on both ends
@ Have mouth and anus
@ Can be free-living or parasitic
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Cysts in Contaminated Pork
 0otifers
@ Known as rotifers or wheel
animals
@ Jransparent, free-swimming
microscopic animal
@ Freshwater & marine
@ Have a ring of cilia around
mouth that rotates like a wheel
to bring in food
@ Feed on unicellular algae,
bacteria, & protozoa
 0otifers
@ Have a muscular organ
called the mastax behind
the pharynx to chop food
@ Nervous system
composed of anterior
ganglia & 2 long nerve
cords
@ how cephalization (head
end)
@ Have 2 anterior, light-
sensitive eyespots
0otifer £natomy