What is a flatworm? What do they eat?where do they live?

Question

What is a flatworm? What do they eat?where do they live?

Answer 1

flatworms belong to the phylum platyhelminthes(platy means flat,its a greek word and helmins means worms)..they are triploblastic,bilaterally symmetrical,dorsoventrally flattened,acoelomate flatworms with organ grade of construction without definite a**s,circulatory,skeletal or respiratory systems but with protonephridial excretory system and mesenchyme filling the space between the various orgabs of body......flatworms are mainly ecto or endoparasites..so they recieve their food frm the host...they are economically important as they cause different diseases to man and his livestock....class cestoda of phylum platyhelminthes lives in the intestine of vertebrates as endoparasites..some common examples are...Fasciola hepatica is sheep liver fluke..it lives in the bile passages of the liver of sheep and other vertebrates..it causes liver rot in them..taenia solium is a common tapeworm endoparasite in the intestine of man...it is also reffered as pork tapeworm coz it involves pig as its second host for the completion of its life cycle.....

Answer 2

flatworm is a platyhelminth. a kind of worm but totally diff. from earthworms.  an e.g. is tapeworm which live in our intestine.

flatworms are parasites and feed on a host. they live on/in their thier host.  they excrete by flame cells.

Answer 3

Flatworms are the simplest of the worm groups. There are about 20,000 species in this group. They are found many places and can be free living or parasitic. A parasite lives off of another living thing called a host and can be harmful. One of the best known flatworms is the tapeworm. The tapeworm can get into a person's digestive tract and grow to enormous lengths. The tapeworm then eats off the host and is dangerous to the host as it grows and consumes more of the host and its food.