Key: Phylum Platyhelminthes, Class Turbellaria, Order
Polycladida
Note: Though there are many other flatworms here, only the
polyclads
grow large enough to be likely to be seen
Taken primarily from Kozloff,
1987, 1996 p. 85 (Copyright
1987, 1996, University of
Washington Press. Used in this web page by permission of University
of Washington Press)
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Ventral surface with a sucker (this is
independent of the digestive
system, and lies behind the female gonopore);
tentacles, when present, situated along the margin of the body at the
anterior
end (Suborder Cotylea) |
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Ventral surface without a sucker; tentacles, when
present, of the nuchal
type, situated above the brain and some distance behind the anterior
end
(suborder Acotylea) |
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A band of eyespots present along the entire margin of
the body (these
may not be visible except in transmitted light) (eyespots also present
on the tentacles, at the bases of the tentacles, and in the region of
the
brain); length up to about 10 cm |
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Taxonomic
Levels Represented
in This Key:
Kaburakia excelsa
Page created by Dave Cowles, 10-2004
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