Allona G.

Reasol,
Bio 4.1 - YB
PLATYHELMINTHES
CRITERIA
Form and
Function

CLASS TUBELLARIA
-a triploblastic animal
-Varies from oval to elongate
or leaf-like

CLASS CESTODA
- tapeworms
-dorso-ventrally
compressed
-Knoblike head(scolex) w/
suckers

Digestive
System and
Nutrition

-Incomplete or lack digestive

system/ tract and absorb
host nutrients across the
naked body wall
-Turbellarians are carnivores
and prey on other animals or
eat dead animal remains

-no digestive tract/system

Circulatory
System

-not present

-not present

Excretion and
Osmoregulation

-is based on Protonephrida.

- Circulatory system
consists of:
1. Three longitudinal
vessels.
2. Contains blood with
hemoglobin.
3. Forming a "closed"
system, no pump.
-Excretory System is well
developed, protonephridia

Respiration

-There are no respiratory

organs . Exchange of gases
takes place through the body
surface .
-Nervous System, the central

-Respiration through body

wall.

-via diffusion.

-Nervous System with pair

-with a pair of anterior

Nervous

CLASS TREMATODA
-flukes,
-dorsoventrally
flattened
-thick and fleshy,long
and threadlike
-internal parasites of
molluscs and
vertebrates
- dead-ended pouch.
*has anterior and
ventral suckers used as
attachment organs.

- flame - cell
Protonephridial system.

CLASS MONOGENEA
-are chiefly host-specific
ectoparasites or
endoparasites of aquatic
vertebrates

-similar to
digeneans(class
trematoda), have a
simple digestive system
consisting of a mouth
opening with a muscular
pharynx and an intestine
with no terminal opening
(anus).
- lack circulatory systems
and have no or weakly
developed oral suckers

System and
Sense Organs

Reproduction

Musculature
and Locomotion

Life Cycle

compenents inclue a brain

and a variable number of
nerve cords.
- Neurons organized into
1. Sensory - nerve fibers
leading to the "brain"
2. Motor - nerve fibers
leading away from the
"brain"
3. Association - nerve fibers
that connect or integrate
with other neurons
-They have well developed
sensory structures, including
eyespots, mechanoreceptors,
and chemoreceptors
- Arises from mesodermal
tissue.
- Mostly hermaphroditic
(monoecious) by way of
copulation and internal
fertilization
-rely primarily on their cilia to
glide over surfaces
-Muscle contractions also
permit turning, twisting and
folding of the body

of well developed ganglia,

dorsal to mouth
connecting with nerve
fibers forming nerve
trunk.

ganglia and lateral

fibers.

- Acoelomate and
Triploblastic

- well developed,
monoecious and
hermaphroditic.

-Muscle system highly

developed with circular
and longitudinal muscles.
-Have external cilia for
locomotion.
Zygote oncosphere larva
(metamorphosis)
extraintestinal juvenile
intestinal adult
-two life cycles:
1. transmission through
aquatic food chain
2. transmission is
terrestrial

- Muscle System - both

circular and
longitudinal.

-includes two or more

hosts at least two
infective stages
Zygote miracidium
larva sporocyst
redia cercaria
metacercaria - adult

-hermaphroditic with
functional reproductive
organs of both sexes
occurring in one
individual

- have direct cycle, no

intermediate host, one
egg gives rise to one
adult worm, colonal
reproduction is absent

Example

Dugesia

Taenia solium

Schistosoma mansoni

Benedenia melleni