flatworm

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• In one way, the flatworms “are better” than a sea slug, Yusa says.

• Planarians are cross-eyed flatworms that biology students used to cut into pieces to study regeneration.

• In one sense, planarians, the little cross-eyed flatworms that biology students mince up to study regeneration, “are better,” Yusa says.

• An initiative in Senegal, for example, will reintroduce edible native river prawns that prey on the snails that transmit the parasitic flatworm that causes schistosomiasis.

• In the 1950s, an unknown psychology professor at the University of Michigan named James McConnell made headlines—and eventually became something of a celebrity—with a series of experiments on freshwater flatworms called planaria.

• Such is seen in the life history of the liver fluke, a flatworm which kills sheep, and in the tapeworm.

• A certain fresh-water flatworm has the mouth and pharynx in the middle of the body.

• The parasite that's doing the damage is a flatworm, a trematode called Hepatodirus hominis.

• If a flatworm be cut in two, the front piece grows out a new tail, the hind piece a new head, and two perfect worms result.