Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa

Platyhelminthes

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Catenulida Meixner, 1924
Platyhelminthes incertae sedis
Rhabditophora Ehlers, 1985
Turbellaria Ehrenberg, 1831

Literature

basis of record

Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.

additional source

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

additional source

Egger, B.; Lapraz, F.; Tomiczek, B.; Müller, S.; Dessimoz, C.; Girstmair, J.; Škunca, N.; Rawlinson, K.; Cameron, C.; Beli, E.; Todaro, M.; Gammoudi, M.; Noreña, C.; Telford, M. (2015). A Transcriptomic-Phylogenomic Analysis of the Evolutionary Relationships of Flatworms. Current Biology. 25(10): 1347-1353.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Platyhelminthes. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=793

Taxonomic Coordinator. Platyhelminthes. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7e991bd1-d5d4-4d96-bbe6-005981da9dd6

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:793
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:14225

Last modified

2015-09-18 by Taxonomic Coordinator & by Tom Artois

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