1. By: Jazmyne Pinkney & DeShawn Biggers
Platyhelminthes
By: Jazmyne Pinkney &
DeShawn Biggers

2. General Characteristics
They are the simplest animals with biltareal symmetry.
They are flatworms.
They don’t have a hollow cavity between endoderm and mesoderm.
They’re three germ layers.
“Acoelomate” give flatworms the thin, flat bodies for which they are named.

3. Adaptations
Flatworms adapt to freshwater marine.

4. Interesting Facts
They have hair under their bodies to help them walk or crawl.
Flatworms can glide over surfaces.
There stomachs are a sack.

5. Classification of Amphilina Foliacea
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Order: Amphilinidea
Family: Amphilinidae
Genus: Amphilina
Species: Amphilina Foliacea
Size- The maximum length is 65mm, the maximum width is 30mm.
Habitat- Are parasitic on aquatic animals, mainly living in the body cavity of freshwater, marine fish, and sometimes in turtles.
Food Source- takes in nutrients from the definitive host, fish.

6. Classification of Pseudoceros ferrugineus
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Turbellaria
Order: Polycadida
Family: Pseudoceritidae
Genus: Pseudoceros
Species: Pseudoceros ferrugineus
Size- 18mm long x 11mm wide
Habitat- freshwater marine
Food sources- sponges, ectoprocts, barnacles, and tunicates.

7. Classification of Dugesia tigrina
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Turbellaria
Order: Tricladida
Family: Planariidae
Genus: Dugesia
Species: Dugesia tigrina
Size- length of mm and width of 3mm.
Habitat- freshwater
Food sources- various invertebrates

8. Videos http://www.oceanfootage.com/video_clips/TO01_108

9. EXTRA CREDIT!
Human interaction can be bad with flatworms because there are many types of flatworms and some are harmful to humans, such as tapeworms.
NO, humans do not eat flatworms.
NO, humans do not hunt flatworms.
NO, flatworms are not endangered.
I don’t think there’s much a human can do to protect a flatworm.

10. Vocabulary
Bilateral symmetry- left and right sides of an organism can be divided.
Invertebrate- an animal without a backbone.
Platyhelminthes- the scientific literature name for flatworms.

11. References http://tolweb.org/