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PLATYHELMINTHES [2 records]

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Record 1 1996-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Zoology
DEF

a phylum of soft-bodied bilaterally symmetrical usually much flattened invertebrates comprising the planarians, flukes, tapeworms, and related worms and often also the nemerteans....

CONT

Tapeworms are simple but devilishly effective creatures, members of the most "primitive" phylum (Platyhelminthes, or flatworms) on those falsely construed "ladders of life" that we all memorized in high school biology.

Key term(s)
  • platyhelminth

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zoologie
Key term(s)
  • plathelminthe
  • platode

Spanish

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Record 2 1980-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie

Spanish

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