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flat·worm
/ ˈflatˌwərm/
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a worm of a phylum (Platyhelminthes) that includes the planarians together with the parasitic flukes and tapeworms. They are distinguished by having a simple flattened body that lacks blood vessels, and a digestive tract that, if present, has a single opening.
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Killer flatworms hunt with poison.
Magazine article from: Science News for Kids; 2/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Williams was collecting flatworms in the waters around...oval, filmy, yellow flatworm in a container for...tetrodotoxin helps flatworms kill, but it doesn't protect adult flatworms from being eaten. The flatworm's eggs have a lot...
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Killer flatworm: new species hunts with puffer fish toxin.
Magazine article from: Science News; 2/18/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...recognize the new flatworm's predatory use...while collecting flatworms in Guam, he picked...base camp, the flatworm was really fat...empty shell. Since flatworms don't have teeth...being eaten. The flatworm's tetrodotoxin...Durham. Marine flatworms are good at borrowing...
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Observations on feeding behavior by the terrestrial flatworm bipalium adventitium (platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) from Illinois
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...mass gained by feeding flatworms, but prey mass was not, possibly because all flatworms fed on earthworms at least...mass gained by feeding flatworms. INTRODUCTION Bipalium...1943 is a terrestrial flatworm that, like the other...
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Wanted, dead or alive: flatworms
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/25/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...numbers and plant growth. Flatworms upset this delicate...ideal conditions, a flatworm eats 14 worms a week...has been invaded by flatworms? Dr Jones at Manchester...says that to kill a flatworm you sprinkle salt on...help find a remedy to flatworms you could start by sending...
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Duck deaths traced to exotic flatworm Parasite from Eastern Europe somehow infested Shawano Lake
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/23/1999; 700+ words
; ...investigation revealed masses of flatworm parasites embedded in the...appeared that three types of flatworm parasite were killing the...greatest numbers. Two of the flatworms biologists could identify...eventually found a reference to a flatworm that looked like the culprit...
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Lumbricid prey and potential herpetofaunal predators of the invading terrestrial flatworm bipalium adventitium (Turbellaria: Tricladida: Terricola)
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...ecological impact of this flatworm will be determined in...snake species to the flatworms. Bipalium advenhtium...their mass. However, flatworm predatory success was...struck and ate a flatworm, with most salamanders...Salamanders that consumed flatworms showed no apparent long...
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Science: Attack of the killer worms At first, no one seemed terribly troubled by the mysterious arrival in Britain of a carnivore flatworm from Down Under. Now the alien is taking over, and concern is growing, writes Simon Hadlington
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Scotland infested with the flatworm. This was the first...relationship between flatworms and earthworms. Of...the presence of the flatworm. However, two species...this was due to the flatworms it suggests there could...foxes and birds." The flatworm population appears to...
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Flatworms may be key to body's regeneration
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 11/28/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...produce adult stem cells that, in flatworms, are capable of replacing aged...fragments will regenerate." If a flatworm is cut into three pieces, each piece will grow into a complete flatworm. Genes flatworms use to regenerate are shared...
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LETTERS:Why the flatworm is harmless at home
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/19/1996; ; 428 words
; ...in New Zealand. The flatworm is harder to find in...defensive mechanisms to the flatworm. Our own earthworms...vulnerable to predation by flatworms. Our studies in Northern...Ireland have shown that the flatworm can disrupt earthworm...
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Whatever happened to the New Zealand flatworm?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/9/1996; 655 words
; ...triangulator, or the New Zealand flatworm. Like shrivelled versions...Lords, Lord Carter said the flatworms "go round in gangs and jump...encountering a New Zealand flatworm was: "to tread on it or...instructions to stamp on the flatworm were unsuccessful - as Lord...
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Flatworms
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Flatworms Flatworms are small, multicelled animals with...both as their anus and mouth. Most flatworm species live in fresh and marine waters...members of the phylum Platyhelminthes, flatworms belong to four classes: Turbellaria...
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flatworms
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
flatworms See Platyhelminthes .
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flatworm
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
flatworm Simple, carnivorous, ribbon-like creature which, having no circulatory system and sometimes no mouth or gut, feeds by absorption through its body wall. The fluke and tapeworm are both animal parasites. Order Platyhelminthes.
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Turbellaria
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...ancestors of the parasitic flatworms; parasitism evolved as a...their digestive cavity. All flatworms must expel undigested food...This eventually splits the flatworm in two, and each piece regenerates...Turbellarians are the only flatworms that can reproduce by fission...
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Platyhelminthes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...invertebrate animals, commonly called flatworms. There are four classes: the free...existence. While the structure of the flatworms marks a major step in animal evolution...group are still controversial. Anatomy Flatworms are dorso-ventrally flattened. The...
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