Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia

Platyhelminthes

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Catenulida Meixner, 1924
Cestoda
Monogenea Van Beneden, 1858
Neodermata
Platyhelminthes incertae sedis
Rhabditophora Ehlers, 1985
Trematoda
Turbellaria
Turbellaria

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: platwormen
 English: flatworms; platyhelminths sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English-United States: platyhelminths sources: Charles Hussey
 Swedish: plattmaskar

Literature

basis of record

Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.

additional source

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Platyhelminthes. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:793

Taxonomic Coordinator. Platyhelminthes. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=14225

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:793
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:14225

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2004-12-21 by Taxonomic Coordinator & by db_admin

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