Platyhelminthes(Flatworms)

by Laura Oakes andDiana Polovick

What does my flatworm look like?

• simple body structure

• small• thin • leaf-like shape• all colors• big • long and short

What is a flatworms habitat?

• flukes living inside humans and animals

• free-living live under rocks• live on coral• live in shells• live on plants

How flatworms eat and how they kill it!• eat shrimp• small worms• snails • young insects• wraps around it’s predator

How does flatworms protect themselves?

• going into humans • going into animals

Interesting flatworm facts

• eats and give waste out of same hole

• their mouths can be on head or butt

• flatworms classified into 4 groups • turbellaria, monogenea ,trematoda and cestoda!

• 20,000 species of flatworms

Any Questions?