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    • Platyhelminthes
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    • flatworms

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What

Hammerhead Flatworm Bipalium kewense

Observer

rolandisimo

Date

May 20, 2012 09:41 PM EDT
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What

Fuchsia Flatworm Pseudoceros ferrugineus

Observer

davidr

Date

Apr 28, 2012
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Observer

jeneesmith

Date

Nov 11, 2011

Description

It was raining out, found it around 8PM.

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Description from Wikipedia

The flatworms, known in scientific literature as Platyhelminthes (from the Greek πλατύ, platy, meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), helminth-, meaning worm) are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrate animals. Unlike other bilaterians they have no body cavity, and no specialized circulatory and respiratory organs, which restricts them to flattened shapes that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through their bodies by diffusion.

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