Phylum Platyhelminthes is commonly known as the flatworms, including free-living flatworms (class Turbellaria), as well as mostly parasitic flukes and tapeworms (classes Monogenea, Trematoda, and Cestoda). Collectively, they are primitive organisms that are flat, soft-bodied, and symmetrical. Recent molecular studies suggest that the Platyhelminthes as a whole may have arisen as two independent ... [MORE] Trematoda (1) Turbellaria (3) 1. 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. 2. 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). 3. Fredrick the Flatworm - Information and images of different types of Platyhelminthes (flatworms). [Javascript required] 4. Introduction to the Platyhelminthes - Introduction to the Platyhelminthes, the flatworms: life in two dimensions. One page of text with a few photographs. 5. Land Planarians - Bipalium kewense Moseley and Dolichoplana striata Moseley - Information about the two flatworm species commonly found in Florida terrestrial habitats, including distribution, life history, economic importance, and images. 6. Meiofauna - Matthew Hooge - A personal page with many beautiful photographs of free-living Platyhelminthes, including actin labelling. 7. Monogenean Trematodes - A short page about monogeneans parasitic in fishes and how to control them. Also available as PDF file. 8. Phylum Platyhelminthes - An introduction to the phylum with more pages about the Turbellaria, Monogenea, Digenea and Cestoda, from Animal Diversity Web.

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