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Convolutriloba retrogemma is a reddish-brown acoel 2 mm in length also commonly known as redbug, red planaria, rust flatworm, or simply red flatworm. It is a marine animal that gets energy from its endosymbiotic algae or from the consumption of small invertebrates such as copepods and rotifers.
Thysanozoon nigropapillosum is quite common along the external reef in the shallow sub-tidal zone. It can swim by undulating and rhythmically contracting the body margins. It feeds on tunicates, using its mouth and large pharynx to engulf Didemnum spp., and later regurgitates food pellets containing the calcareous spicules present in their tunic
Free-living flatworms are mostly predators, and live in water or in shaded, humid terrestrial environments, such as leaf litter. Cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flukes) have complex life-cycles, with mature stages that live as parasites in the digestive systems of fish or land vertebrates , and intermediate stages that infest secondary hosts.
Like other related marine flatworms, the new species has both male and female genitalia, the study said. Huidong marine flatworms have at least 170 eyes on their heads, researchers said.
Hammerhead worms are planarians, a type of flatworm. Five species of invasive hammerhead worms — four in the genus Bipalium and one in Diversibipalium — are established in North America, said ...
Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). Most of the species—and the best-known—are those in the subclass Eucestoda; they are ribbon-like worms as adults, commonly known as tapeworms. Their bodies consist of many similar units known as proglottids—essentially packages of eggs which are regularly shed ...
flatworms: Priapulida: phylum: penis worms, general shape may recall the shape of a penis: 0.2 to 39 centimetres (0.079 to 15.354 in) Sipuncula: class: peanut worms, a group of unsegmented marine annelids: 2 to 720 millimetres (0.079 to 28.346 in) Teredinidae: family: shipworms, which are marine bivalve molluscs: several inches to five feet ...
Platydemus manokwari, also known as the New Guinea flatworm, is a large predatory land flatworm that has become an invasive species in many countries. [1] [2] Platydemus manokwari, invasive in Florida, US. Native to New Guinea, it was accidentally introduced to the soil of many countries.