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turbellarian

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turbellarian: see Platyhelminthes Platyhelminthes , phylum containing about 20,000 species of soft-bodied, bilaterally symmetrical, invertebrate animals, commonly called flatworms. There are four classes: the free-living, primarily aquatic class, Turbellaria, and Trematoda, Cestoda, and Monogenea,
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; planarian planarian, common name for several genera of the free-living (turbellarian) flatworms belonging to the order Tricladida, a name that derives from their characteristic three-branched digestive cavities. Most species range from 1-8 in. to about 1 in. in length (.
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Drills, crabs, and Stylochus turbellarians are all active predators in Delaware Bay (Stauber 1943, McDermott & Flower 1952, Maurer & Watling 1973, Ismail 1985) and likely do not leave boxes behind when they die or leave behind boxes of small individuals that rapidly disarticulate.
Black Spot disease is a common marine illness caused by a parasitic turbellarian flatworm in the genus Paravortex.
Changes in the Electrophoretic profiles of Gill Mucus Proteases of the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica in response to infection by the Turbellarian Urastoma cyprinae.
 
 
 
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