what is Platyhelminthes
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A phylum of invertebrates that comprises of flatworns
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- The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.
- Scientific name - Platyhelminthes
- Kingdom - Animialia
- Rank - Phylum
- The simplest animals that are bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic are the Platyhelminthes.
- Their body is dorsoventrally flattened.
- They exhibit bilateral symmetry.
- Also, they are triploblastic, with three germ layers.
- They do not have a body cavity and are acoelomate.
- Body is soft and unsegmented.
- They are mostly parasitic with a few free-living.
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