Phylum Platyhelminthes Part 1: General Characteristics

The first phylum within Spiralia that we will investigate is Platyhelminthes. These are the so-called flatworms. What are their characteristics? What are the clades within this phylum? Let's set ourselves up for a thorough investigation!
Script by Ryan Helcoski
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Fun and educational, as always, Professor Dave! I giggled a bit at the notion of a "free living flat worm" when first mentioned. It brought to mind the notion that some flat worms might be falsely imprisoned for some reason.

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[@sciencenerd7639]

Wow, I hadn't realized that so many flat worms were so beautiful. Many of these are as pretty as nudibranchs.

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Oh no professor Dave knows the power of the infinitely cuttable flatworm, now he is INVINCIBLE 🧬😂😂
I just think it's kinda interesting that they have a Phyarnx and Pharyngoal cavity but evolution scrapped them of a circulatory system, always been fascinated by the flatworms

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[@uprightape100]

Just wondering.......what and when was the last common ancestor of Chordates and Platyhelminthes? Similarities abound.
Edit: according to the chart at the end, we're closer to Echinoderms. Wouldn't'a guessed that.

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correct, we're both deuterostomes and we have an endoskeleton. We'll get to them eventually, but there's a lot to explore before then

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If intelligent design is created using intelligence where did the intelligence come from?
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platyhelminthes...my favorite phylum and the most fun to say!

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I think I will need to know more about flatworms

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Unlearning stuff from high school and university...
Nothing remains constant...

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There have been some adjustments to taxonomy in recent years due to the fact that we have more DNA evidence, however, that is nothing to get discouraged about. That doesn't mean that the framework that we got in high school/university was useless. Science is just discovering more and more all the time. So it's not "everything I learned in school was wrong" it's "we know even more stuff now, cool!"

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Please upload the all phylum and subclass of animal kingdom...

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[@billyr2904]

I just realized your cladogram is missing a phylum, that being Acanthocephala. Xenoturbillina and acoelomorpha, should really be shown on the cladogram as the phylum xenacoelomorpha, instead of xenacoelomorpha broken into its separate 'classes'. The phylum Acanthocephala, commonly known as spiny-headed worms, are from my research most closely related to the rotifers of the phylum rotifera and are are a sister taxa to that group. Which also means they are part of the spiralian clade called gnathifera, which I pronounce the g in it, because it is of Greek origin, and all letters in a Greek word are pronounced, with the greek for jaw being, γναθος. But the modern Greek is σαγόνι.

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@einmaniac I actually just found that out very recently, and I was a bit surprised that spiny-headed worms, aren't there own separate phylum.

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I’m now slightly dumber after watching this! 😮

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Too many words I don't understand

[@russiandragon45]

Imagine being a flat worm and pooping out your mouth 🤮
Their eye spots look so cute though.

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They're soo goofy looking 😂

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