Phylum Platyhelminthes

1. Known as flatworms
2. Mostly dorsoventrally flattened and bilaterally symmetrical
3. Usually leaf shaped/ oval but some are elongated
4. Triploblastic
5. Acoelomate
Parenchymatous connective tissue separates the organs Enables the animal to
regenerate
6. Protonephridial system for osmoregulation (Absent in Acoel flatworms)
7. Incomplete digestive system (Absent in Acoel flatworms)
8. Complex hermaphrodite reproductive system but cross fertilization is common
9. Nervous system: Ladder type
10. Circulatory and respiratory system absent
11. Simple sense organs; Some have eyespots
12. Undergoes spiral cleavage development
13. Turbellarians - free living; Others are entirely parasitic
14. Gravid proglottid - full of fertilized eggs, Uterus occupies whole proglottid

Class Turbellaria
Use cilia to move
Rhabdites + water mucus

Order Polycladida
Genus Pseudoceros

Family Pseudoceridae
Undergo penis fencing

Order Tricladida
Genus Dugesia
Planaria

Class Trematoda
1st intermediate host: often a snail

Order Opisthorchiformes
Genus Clonorchis
Species sinesis
Branched testis

Genus Opisthorchis
Lobed testis

Order Echinostomatiformes
Genus Fasciola
Species hepatica
Broader shoulder

Genus Fasciola
Species gigantica

Order Paramphistomiformes
Genus Diplodiscus

Order Strigeiformes
Genus Schistosoma
 Species japonicum

Order Plagiorchiformes
Encyst in arthropods

Genus Eurytrema
Species pancreaticum
Genus Paragonimus
Species westermani
Genus Prosthogonimus

Class Monogenea
Genus Polystoma
Host is frog or toad, syncs with the mating season of frog, infects gills of tadpole

Class Cestoda
Order Pseudophyllidae
Longest worm in man

Genus Diphyllobothrium
Species latum

Order Trypanorhyncha
Parasite of marine cartilagenous fish

Order Cyclophyllidea
Family Taeniidae
Genus Taenia
Species solium
Release larvae in chains

Genus Taenia
Species saginata
Release larvae one by one

Genus Echinococcus
Species granulosus
Dogs, cats & humans
Forms big cyst before releasing

Family Dilepididae
Genus Dipylidium
Species caninum

Family Hymenolepididae
Genus Hymenolepis
Species nana

Family Hymenolepididae
Genus Hymenolepis
Species diminuta

Family Anoplocephalidae
Larger mammals

Genus Bertiella
Genus Anoplocephala