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Platyhelminthes 
AphiaID: 793

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1
Rank Phylum
Parent Animalia
Sources  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. (look up in IMIS[details]

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. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch platwormen  [details]
English flatworms  [details]
English platyhelminths  [details]
Swedish plattmaskar  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Class Catenulida
Class Cestoda
Class Monogenea
Class Platyhelminthes incertae sedis
Class Rhabditophora
Class Trematoda
Class Turbellaria

Class Monogenoidea represented as Monogenea (alternate representation)
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:793
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Platyhelminthes. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=793 on 2013-06-20
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