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| | FLATWORM |
 | | The cirrus pouch opens through the genital pore into a common genital atrium, located on the midventral surface anterior to the leading margin of the ventral disk. | | | Hence, this is one of the most studied body parts of tapeworms. | | | The general structure of the tegument is similar in all cestodes studied, with some variations among species. |
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http://faculty.pnc.edu/jcamp/parasit/flatworm.html
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| | DARD Press Article: March of the worm: an update on the New Zealand Flatworm |
| | At the moment, our emphasis at DARD is in trying to understand more of the flatworm's basic ecology e.g. | | | Despite the work already done on the New Zealand flatworm, there are still many aspects of its biology which we know little about. | | | And most importantly - how do flatworm and earthworm populations interact? |
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http://www.dardni.gov.uk/pa2002/pa020079.htm
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| | NZ Flatworm page |
| | As flatworms are highly mobile, measures will be most effective when applied to all gardens within a neighbourhood. | | | warm, or they are bounded in such a way as to prevent the inward and outward movement of flatworms (e.g. | | | The last two treatments will result in the death of NZ flatworms. |
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http://www.kitchengardens.dial.pipex.com/flatworm.htm
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| | Asthma Cures Information on Asthma Cures |
| | Parasitic worms could provide the key to finding cures for asthma and other allergies, according to new research to be unveiled today. | | | Borsa-Italia.Net, Italy -Parasitic worms could provide the key to finding cures for asthma and other allergies, according to new research to be unveiled today... | | | Parasitic worms could provide the key to finding cures for asthma and other allergies, according to new research. |
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http://www.searchasthma.com
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| | flatworm |
| | A marine turbellarian flatworm seems to propel itself along simply by rippling the ribbonlike edges of its flat body. | | | In fact, the body surface of the flatworm is covered in tiny mucus-covered hairlike projections, and the ripples create waves of mucus, through which the creature pulls itself smoothly forward, using the hairlike projections. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007915.html
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| | The Sea Slug Forum - Flatworm body parts |
| | I need a picture of a flatworm with its body parts listed where they are at! | | | For more information have a look at Wolfgang Seifarth's excellent Flatworm Site. |
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http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=491
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| | Reef Central Online Community - A flatworm observation |
| | But I always seem to be alone is my thoughts that not only are flatworms not harmful, but beneficial. | | | I just monitor their activities and make sure they are not or will not start preying on any coral tissue. | | | I thought you were feeding phytoplankton, and thought that could be what the flatworms were growing with. |
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http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132857
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| | BM Gallery - Biology Classics: Planaria |
| | Our video program, The Biology of Flatworms, shows the feeding behavior | | | Please feel free to link to this site - see our link-to buttons. | | | of Dugesia along with other free living flatworms, flukes and tapeworms. |
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http://ebiomedia.com/gall/classics/Plan/planaria.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Flatworm |
| | A well-developed musculature, found directly under the epidermis (skin layer), allows the body to expand and contract, thus changing the body shape to a remarkable degree. | | | The flatworm has no blood or vascular system. | | | Except in the simplest forms, one end of the body is more specialized for sensory perception, and locomotion takes place in the direction of specialization. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569587/Flatworm.html
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| | Mather Field Vernal Pools - Flatworms |
| | A Flatworm moves by rowing its many tiny, thin, hair-like structures called cilia on the outside of its body. | | | Most Flatworms have at least two eyespots close to the head end of the body. | | | The Flatworms in vernal pools can stick this pharynx (throat/mouth) into their prey. |
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http://www.sacsplash.org/critters/flatworms.htm
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| | All flatworms have a soft body and a triangle-shaped head. | | | Flatworms are not closely related to most other "worms," such as earthworms. | | | Sometimes they even eat other flatworms, including their own kind! |
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http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/flatworm.htm
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| | New Zealand Flatworm |
| | This is thought to occur in drier regions as the flatworm prefers wet conditions. | | | They could be a solution to the problem if they can be used as a biological control, but further research is needed to show that we won't be overrun by gnats instead. | | | They are a great threat to soil condition and the wildlife which feed on earthworms, and every means should be employed to prevent their spread and eradicate them if possible. |
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http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/flatworm.htm
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| | Short Take - Gregory Schiemer |
| | Interestingly, they are shaped similar to their flatworm prey and possess two streamer-like appendages and a hammer-shaped head. | | | These flatworms are apparently distasteful to most fish because they accumulate toxic substances within their bodies. | | | As they come upon a flatworm, they fold part of their body and form a straw-like proboscis that they use to "suck" up the worms. |
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http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/may2002/short.htm
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| | Straight Dope Staff Report: If Flatworm A eats Flatworm B, will it absorb Flatworm B's knowledge? |
| | However, the original experiments on flatworm learning (probably the basis for the book comments, horribly distorted from the actual data) did not involve a maze, but rather a Y-shaped trough: when a flatworm reached the fork, the experimenters gave it a shock to induce it to turn to the right-hand fork. | | | This new flatworm will absorb the knowledge of the maze from the first flatworm. | | | In other words, instead of memory transfer, think of it as a "smart drug"--a chemical from a flatworm that has become smarter can make another flatworm smarter, but that's as far as it goes. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mflatworm.html
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| | References |
| | Murchie, A. and Moore, J. Hot-water treatment to prevent transference of the ‘New Zealand flatworm’, Artioposthia triangulata. | | | Barnwell, G. The role of encephalization in the feeding behavior of a land planarian, Bipalium kewense. | | | Blackshaw, R. Changes in populations of the predatory flatworm Artioposthia triangulata and its earthworm prey in grassland. |
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http://flatworm.csl.gov.uk/refs.htm
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| | Flatworm |
| | A flatworm takes in oxygen, but has no formal respiratory system. | | | It has tiny bristles called cilia that help it move as well as two layers of muscles under its skin. | | | A flatworm has a very simple nervous system with two nerve cords running down either side. |
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http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Flatworm.html
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| | The Shape of Life . Platyhelminthes PBS |
| | The head region of the flatworm also contains other paired sense organs, which are connected to the flatworm's simple brain. | | | Flatworms are bilaterally symmetrical with a defined head and tail region and a centralized nervous system containing a brain and nerve cords. | | | Clusters of light-sensitive cells make up what are called eyespots. |
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http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/animals/platyhelminthes.html
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| | Melev's Reef - Flatworm Removal |
| | The purpose of this experiment is only to find out just how resistant they are. | | | Due to their extremely thin bodies, they are called flatworms correctly. | | | Wait and watch to see if it affects the flatworms. |
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http://www.melevsreef.com/flatworms.html
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| | - Marine Depot - Marine and Reef Aquarium Super Store |
| | This can be reduced significantly by really siphoning out the flatworms before commencing with the treatment. | | | The most important factors are reducing the number of flatworms before commencing with the treatment and reducing the amount of the flatworm`s body juice, released when they die, as fast as possible. | | | Many people have treated their reef tank(s) successfully using Flatworm eXit without any problems. |
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http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=SF5111
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| | Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News - Flatworm Attack |
| | Using standard analytical techniques, Ritson-Williams and Paul and Mari Yotsu-Yamashita of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, discovered tetrodotoxin and a few analogs in the flatworm's tissues, particularly in the animal's feeding organ. | | | Tetrodotoxin occurs in many marine and terrestrial creatures, but no one presumed the agent had an offensive function. | | | Trolling the literature for clues, the scientists found a 1987 paper by Japanese researchers who reported finding tetrodotoxin, a powerful neurotoxin first isolated from pufferfish, in another flatworm species. |
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http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/i08/8408flatworm.html
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| | Various Authors, "Flatworm Eradication" ... www.reefs.org |
| | Why I didn't post the experience to the list in May. I wish I posted this earlier so you could have possibly benefited from it, Jimmy. | | | I could have saved you some pain if I posted this in May. To make (lousy) amends.... | | | As of this point I do not have enough experiences to pin point if this effect on the corals were caused by a negative reaction to Greenex, or negative reaction to the flat worm die offs. |
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http://www.reefs.org/library/article/flatworm_eradication.html
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| | Flatworms |
| | Home > Research Areas > Theme 3 ~ Environment and Ecology > PSI > soil ecology > Flatworms | | | New Zealand flatworm is a predator of the earthworms which keep our soils in good condition and are a source of food for lots of animals and birds. | | | The flatworm has been known to reduce earthworms to below detectable levels. |
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http://www.scri.sari.ac.uk/SCRI/web/site/home/ResearchAreas/MGOE/PSI/soilecology/Flatworms.asp
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| | Factsheetabout New Zealand flatworm |
| | Members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. | | | Flatworms have now been identified at points throughout the UK. | | | Several other races of flatworm have been found in the UK since the introduction of A. |
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http://www.organicgardening.org.uk/factsheets/pc21.php
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| | New Zealand Flatworm |
| | For further information on CSL's work on the New Zealand Flatworm, please click here. | | | The evidence for its impact on earthworm populations remains inconclusive, however its potential threat emphasises the importance of understanding the biology and ecology of this organism. | | | You are here: Services / Consultancy and Advisory Services / Statutory Plant Health / New Zealand Flatworm |
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http://www.csl.gov.uk/prodserv/cons/plant/flatworm.cfm
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| | Reeftank.com - My thanks to Salifert Flatworm Exit! |
| | I can't really tell if it has affected the bristleworms or other worms in my substrate. | | | Luckily, I didn't have many flatworms in the tank before I noticed them, so their death didn't seem to have too much affect on the inhabitants in the tank. | | | Maybe I need a 3x or higher suggested dosage of Flatworm Exit in the refugium to kill the black flatworms since they did show some sign of distress upon the initial treatment. |
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http://www.reeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77
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| | New Zealand Flatworm |
| | This website describes the background, objectives and progress of ongoing research investigating the biology and ecology of the New Zealand flatworm in the UK. | | | The Defra Code of Practice also contains advice and information on where to send flatworms for identification | | | The New Zealand flatworm is not native to the United Kingdom. |
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http://flatworm.csl.gov.uk
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| | flatworm on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Parasites make frogs grow extra legs.(flatworm found to cause deformities in frogs)(Brief Article) | | | A free trial at HighBeam will give you more info than you can handle. | | | EVOLUTION: From a Flatworm, New Clues on Animal Origins |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-flatworm.asp
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| | flatworm -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Flatworms are among the most primitive bilaterally symmetrical (having a body with two identical halves) animals. | | | In the case of head regeneration, some blastema cells become brain tissues, others develop into the eyes, and still others differentiate as muscle or intestine. | | | The flatworms are free-living as well as parasitic—i.e., living on or in another organism and securing nourishment from it. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110639
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| | Introduction to the Platyhelminthes |
| | Planarians are free-living flatworms, and have a much simpler life history. | | | Recent molecular studies suggest that the Platyhelminthes as a whole may even be polyphyletic, having arisen as two independent groups from different ancestral groups. | | | Flatworms have no body cavity other than the gut (and the smallest free-living forms may even lack that!) and lack an anus; the same pharyngeal opening both takes in food and expels waste. |
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/platyhelminthes/platyhelminthes.html
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| | Photograph of, and Notes on, Red Sea Flatworm |
| | The flatworm's simple brain can interpret information and even has the capacity to learn. | | | Another is stimulated by the passage of water over the flatworm's body and perceived by rheotactic sensors. | | | These are not digested but passed to the body wall as a form of defense. |
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http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/flatworm.html
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| | Killer Flatworm: New species hunts with puffer fish toxin: Science News Online, Feb. 18, 2006 |
| | Tetrodotoxin and other toxins from marine organisms have caught the attention of biomedical researchers for basic research and drug development. | | | His new experiments provide an unusual look at how a flatworm uses its formidable chemistry. | | | A newly discovered flatworm from Guam wraps its body around a cowrie in its shell, paralyzes it with a nerve toxin, and pulls out the red body in about half an hour. |
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http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060218/fob3.asp
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Flatworm |
| | More complex than the coelenterates are flatworms such as planaria. | | | Flatworm, common name for soft-bodied, usually parasitic animals, the simplest of animals possessing heads. | | | Worms have a well-defined head and tail end and a more complex behavioural... |
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http://au.encarta.msn.com/Flatworm.html
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| | Zubi Flatworm / Plattwurm (Pseudobiceros g.) |
| | Flatworms also have a very flattened body and dazzling colors. | | | At first glance this flatworm could easily be mistaken for a nudibranch. | | | However they don't have tentacles (rhinophores) nor gills. |
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http://www.starfish.ch/Fotos/flatwormpolyclad.html
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| | Wildlife News: New Zealand Flatworm |
| | They are easily distinguished from earthworms in that their bodies are flatter, smoother and unsegmented. | | | Beetle larvae, especially Ground and Rove, seem to eat these flatworms. | | | One of the biggest problems with recording the spread of flatworms is that so little is known about this group of animals. |
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http://www.wildlifenews.co.uk/article/nzfw.htm
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| | [Coral-List] Acropora flatworm pest |
| | Another method is using a drug called Levamisole. | | | > Are there any treatments other than iodine that will > kill or detach flatworms from living coral, without > harming the coral? | | | There is a commercial product called Flatworm Exit by Salifert. |
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http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list/2004-September/001353.html
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| | BioKIDS: Black spot flatworm (Uvulifer ambloplitis) : Information |
| | These flatworms have a forked tail in their free-living, cercaria form. | | | No animals prey directly on these flatworms, although they may be eaten by filter-feeding aquatic animals during their free-living stage. | | | These flatworms have a negative effect on the fish populations that they infect. |
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http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/information/Uvulifer_ambloplitis.html
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| | Biodiversity Invs |
| | They have a very thin skin, and can absorb oxygen and release waste gases through their permeable skin. | | | A cocoon containing eggs, swells in the body of the flatworm. | | | Being flat increases the area of skin exposed to the water, which improves the flatworm's oxygen uptake. |
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http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/biodiversity/invert/flatworm.html
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| | FLATWORM |
| | As their name suggests, they are wormlike and flat without segments on their body. | | | They have a soft skin with hair, generally down the side. | | | Flatworms are mostly carnivorous and prey on invertebrates small enough to be captured. |
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http://www.bugsurvey.nsw.gov.au/html/popups/bpedia_24_vtol_fl.html
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| | Defra, UK - Plant Health - Flatworms |
| | Where containers stand on black polythene or capillary matting, frequently check, where possible, the underside of the polythene or matting for the flatworm. | | | There are no proven chemical methods of control, but the Agricultural Departments are funding research into these and other means of control. | | | Egg capsules can also be found in such areas. |
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http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestnote/flat1.htm
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| | “Black clocks” call time on invasive flatworm |
| | Earthworms play a vital role in soil fertility and are an important source of food for birds and small mammals. | | | Apart from being unattractive, this invasive flatworm is having a serious impact on our native earthworms, particularly the large, long-lived species such as Lumbricus terrestris. | | | Entomologists in Belfast may finally have found a way of limiting the spread of the New Zealand flatworm, which invaded the British Isles in the 1960s. |
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http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/agricultural_sciences/report-12677.html
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| | sound projector review |
| | The Flatworm covers, each of which follows the same rigid formula, are good enough to get their own paragraph in this review. | | | Perhaps I exaggerate a little, but there really do seem to be a fuck of a lot of them. | | | If CDR as a medium is as rubbish as word on the street (as it were) would have it, Fencing Flatworm may be the exception that proves the rule. |
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http://www.fencingflatworm.connectfree.co.uk/projectorreview.htm
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| | Zubi Acoelous flatworm / Korallenstrudelwurm (Waminoa sp.) |
| | This flatworm can be a real pest, since it covers the whole surface of some corals and thus leaves them no way to catch plankton and their symbiotic algeas (Zooxanthelles) can't produce the necessary sugar. | | | These photos show some soft coral all covered by hundreds of tiny flatworms. | | | Their brown color is from the same symbiotic algeas as mentioned above. |
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http://www.starfish.ch/Fotos/flatwormacoela.html
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| | Fuchsia Flatworm |
| | Most flatworms are very thin and have ruffled edges that undulate back and forth when they swim. | | | All are relatively small, to an inch or so, and most are very highly colored like this fuchsia flatworm. | | | Forty-four species of these flatworms occur in Hawaiian waters. |
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http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/good-bad/flatworm.html
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| | Marine Flatworms of the World! - Introduction |
| | Mimicry has been observed for at least some polyclad flatworm species which are found to mimic distasteful or toxic opisthobranch molluscs. | | | The following examples demonstrate how pseudocerotid flatworms rely on their similarity to phyllidiid and chromodorid species for protection against fish attack. | | | Pseudoceros imitatus (Family Pseudocerotidae, Order Polycladida), described by Newman and Cannon 1994, is an obvious example for a number of invertebrates which are very similar in shape and colour to phyllidiid nudibranchs. |
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http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/Introduction06.html
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| | Flatworm (Dugesia japonica) Chemical Toxicity Studies |
| | Flatworm (Dugesia japonica) Toxicity Studies - Toxicology studies from the primary scientific literature on aquatic organisms | | | Note: Only partial study information is reported on these pages. |
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http://www.pesticideinfo.org/List_AquireAll.jsp?Species=4764
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| | Flatworm that eats earthworms |
| | They are found all over the world and are a problem in some regions. | | | We did not know what it was; we had never seen anything like it before. | | | After an internet search, we found out that it's a flatworm that eats earthworms. |
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http://home.alltel.net/ronaldpatterson/flatworm.htm
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