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Freshwater planarians are Platyhelminthes belonging to the class Turbellaria, order Seriata, suborder Tricladida, infra-order Paludicola. The term Tricladida (or triclads) refers to the three main branches into which their digestive system are divided; Paludicola means members are inhabitants of freshwater habitats. Freshwater planarians are the best known planarians due to there easy culture and ease of handling under laboratory conditions and, because they have been, and still are, the most widely used turbellarian in experimental research, particularly with regards to regeneration (see Brønsted, 1969, and Gremigni, 1988, for general references).
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Baguñà, J. et al. (1990). Growth, Degrowth and Regeneration as Developmental Phenomena in Adult Freshwater Planarians. In: Marthy, HJ. (eds) Experimental Embryology in Aquatic Plants and Animals. NATO ASI Series, vol 195. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3830-1_7
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