Saturday, October 22, 2016

Phylum-Platyhelminthes

This phylum includes “flat animals”.
Animals are aquatic (fresh water or marine) or terrestrial free-living or parasitic.
Body is bilaterally symmetrical, triplobastic and dorsoventrally flat.
Digestive system is incomplete and without anus.
Other systems are absent.
Excretion takes place  with the help of  flame cell or protonephridia.

Animals are hermaphrodite and sexual reproduction takes place.
     Ex- Flat-worm, Tape-worm etc.
Liver-Fluke

Tape-worm

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