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- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thephylum Platyhelminthes — the free-livingflatworms .
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In Biology of the Turbellaria, edited by Nathan W. Riser and M. Patricia Morse (1974); UJE; WWIAJ (1928, 1938); WWWIA 4; Yost, Edna.
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Below were some pictures labeled Class Turbellaria and Class Trematoda.
Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996
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Below were some pictures labeled Class Turbellaria and Class Trematoda.
Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996
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Turbellaria, which he had found to be segmentally arranged in certain
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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His speculations on this matter may be summed up somewhat as follows: -- The common ancestor of all segmented animals is a segmented worm-like form, not quite like any existing type, resembling the Turbellaria in having two nerve strands on the dorsal side and no oesophageal ring, potentially able to develop either the Vertebrate or the Annelid mouth, and so to give origin both to the Articulate and to the Vertebrate series.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Not content with establishing the unity of plan of Annelids, Arthropods, and Vertebrates, Semper tries to link on the Annelids, as the most primitive group of the three, to the unsegmented worms, and particularly to the Turbellaria.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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(Turbellaria), and the two parasitic classes of the suctorial worms
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Further, the cilia that cover the whole surface of the Turbellaria are confined in the Gastrotricha to two ciliated bands (f) on the ventral surface of the oval body, the dorsal surface having bristles.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The Turbellaria, with which the similar Platodaria were formerly classed, differ materially from them in the more advanced structure of their organs, and especially in having a central nervous system
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Both classes have a complete ciliary coat on the epidermis, a heritage from the Turbellaria and the Gastraeads; also, both have two openings of the gut, the mouth and anus, like the
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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