flatworm

📅 Updated:2022-07-20

🕒 Created:2022-02-22

🆔 ID:40648

Description

Any member of the diverse phylum Platyhelminthes. The majourity of these are free-living worms with a sac-like, often branching gut, with some flatworms bearing an eversible pharynx, and even a small yet well-organised and complex brain; though the phylum also contains parasitic and commensal flatworms, as well. The parasitic forms are often the most studied, due to their roles in disease.