Animalia Platyhelminthes
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- Cestoda (6)
- Trematoda (6)
- Turbellaria (8)
- Science: Biology: Flora and Fauna: Animalia: Acoelomates (2)
- Science: Biology: Microbiology: Parasitology (16)
Bibliography on Ultrastructure of Spermatozoa of Parasitic Platyhelminthes - References on ultrastructural studies of spermatozoa and spermiogenesis in the parasitic Platyhelminthes (Aspidogastrea, Digenea, Polyopisthocotylea, Monopisthocotylea, Gyrocotylidea, Amphilinidea, and Eucestoda).
Flatworms: British Marine Life Study Society - One page about a planarian and one page about the life cycle of the digenean Cryptocotyle lingua, with a few photographs.
Fredrick the Flatworm - Information and images of different types of Platyhelminthes (flatworms). [Javascript required]
Introduction to the Platyhelminthes - Introduction to the Platyhelminthes, the flatworms: life in two dimensions. One page of text with a few photographs.
Meiofauna - Matthew Hooge - A personal page with many beautiful photographs of free-living Platyhelminthes, including actin labelling.
Metagonimiasis - Information on the minute intestinal fluke, Metagonimus yokogawai, which can parasitize the human gut, and a diagram and information on its life cycle.
Phylum Platyhelminthes - An introduction to the phylum with more pages about the Turbellaria, Monogenea, Digenea and Cestoda, from Animal Diversity Web.
Platyhelminthes and Acoelomorpha: Phyla of Controversy - Illustrated article by Seth Tyler discussing the difficulty in correctly classifying the flatworms and the acoelomates.
Platyhelminthes: Flatworms, Tapeworms, Flukes - Much information on the flatworms and the characteristics that distinguish them from other worm-like creatures, with photographs and diagrams.
Prostheceraeus vittatus - Three photographs of this flatworm.
Schistosomiasis - Information on the digenetic blood trematodes of the genus Schistosoma which can infect humans, and a diagram and information on their complex life cycle. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.