Platyhelminthes

• 18,500 described species

• 1 class of free-living individuals (Turbellaria)

• 3 classes of exclusively parasitic species

  • Monogenea (monogenetic trematodes)
  • Trematoda (digenetic trematodes, or flukes)
  • Cestodes (tapeworms)

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