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Fimbriaria (flatworm)
''Fimbriaria'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Hymenolepididae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: *''Fimbriaria czaplinskii'' *''Fimbriaria fasciolaris'' *''Fimbriaria intermedia'' *''Fimbriaria mergi'' *''Fimbriaria sarcinalis'' *''Fimbriaria teresae'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q18193384 Cestoda Taxa named by Josef Aloys Frölich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatworms
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates. Unlike other bilaterians, they are acoelomates (having no body cavity), and have no specialized circulatory and respiratory organs, which restricts them to having flattened shapes that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through their bodies by diffusion. The digestive cavity has only one opening for both ingestion (intake of nutrients) and egestion (removal of undigested wastes); as a result, the food cannot be processed continuously. In traditional medicinal texts, Platyhelminthes are divided into Turbellaria, which are mostly non-parasitic animals such as planarians, and three entirely parasitic groups: Cestoda, Trematoda and Monogenea; however, since the turbellarians have since been proven not to be mono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
