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The Polycladida [1] represents a highly diverse clade of free-living marine flatworms. They are known from the littoral to the sublittoral zone (extending to the deep hot vents), and many species are common from coral reefs. Only a few species are found in freshwater habitats.
Pseudoceros bifurcus is a marine flatworm species that belongs to the family Pseudocerotidae. Common name ... "Marine Flatworms",CSIRO publishing,2003,ISBN ...
Pseudoceros ferrugineus, the Fuchsia flatworm, is a marine flatworm species that belongs to the Pseudocerotidae family. Description
Praestheceraeus bellostriatus ranges in base color from dark blue to black, with extensive white or pale blue stripes running lengthwise along the top of its flat body. . Like other flatworms in the order Polycladida, aside from the two stout tentacles on its head, this species has a remarkably flat, fragile, ovaloid
Pseudobiceros gloriosus (common name: the Glorious flatworm) is a benthic marine flatworm species that belongs to the Pseudocerotidae family. It is typically found in the tropical Indo-Pacific, from Eastern Africa to Micronesia, in the top or slope of reefs.
[Ref 3] [Ref 4] The beneficial symbiosis with the carbon dioxide fixing and sulfur-oxidizing endosymbionts allows the marine flatworm to live in nutrient poor environments. The symbionts not only provide the nutrition but also maintain the primary energy reserves in the symbiosis. [Ref 5] A flatworm, Paracatenula sp., elegantly moving in the ...
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.
Amakusaplana acroporae, the Acropora-eating flatworm or AEFW, is a species of free-living marine polyclad flatworms in the genus Amakusaplana. [1] This species preys on the genus Acropora in reef aquariums. [2] These flatworms can grow up to 6 mm and the number of eyes they have increase with body length.