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Platyhelminthes

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The platyhelminthes or flatworms are perhaps best known through their parasitic representatives, the flukes and tapeworms, but they also include a group of free-living worms, the turbellarians, with marine, freshwater and terrestrial representatives.

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    J. D. Fish & S. Fish

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Fish, J.D., Fish, S. (1989). Platyhelminthes. In: A Student’s Guide to the Seashore. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5888-6_10

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