Multicellular, acoelomate animals, which are flattened dorso-ventrally and are bilaterally symmetrical and have the epidermis and gut separated by a solid mass of tissue.
Source: Prudhoe, 1982.
The following taxa of this phylum occur in the region:
Class Turbellaria Order Polycladida Suborder Acotylea Superfamily Cestoplanoidea Family Cestoplanidae Genus Cestoplana Superfamily Planoceroidea Family Leptoplanidae Genus Leptoplana Genus Notoplana Genus Stylochoplana Family Planoceridae Genus Planocera Superfamily Stylochoidea Family Cryptocelididae Genus Cryptocelis Family Plehniidae Genus Discocelides Family Polyposthiidae Genus Cryptocelides Genus Polyposthia Suborder Cotylea Family Euryleptidae Genus Cycloporus Genus Eurylepta Genus Oligocladus Genus Prostheceraeus Genus Stylostomum Order Seriata Suborder Tricladida Infraorder Maricola Family Procerodidae Genus Micropharynx Genus Procerodes Genus Sabussowia Family Uteriporidae Genus Foviella Genus Uteriporus Cestoplana rubrocincta Cryptocelides loveni Cryptocelis equiheni Cycloporus maculatus Cycloporus papillosus Discocelides langi Eurylepta cornuta Foviella affinis Leptoplana schizoporellae Leptoplana tremellaris Micropharynx parasitica Notoplana atomata Oligocladus sanguinolentus Planocera folium Polyposthia similis Procerodes littoralis Prostheceraeus vittatus Sabussowia dioica Stylochoplana maculata Stylostomum ellipse Uteriporus vulgaris |