Handbook of Zoology. Platyhelminthes - Volume 2: Platyhelminthes - Free-living taxa: Tricladida

Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) occupy a variety of environments, they live in the sea, in freshwater and some even on land. Many flatworms are parasites. This comprehensive book deals with the free-living taxa, parasites are treated with in a future volume. Many free-living flatworms are microscopically small and live in marine and freshwater sediments. They are almost unknown to amateurs, but diverse in morphology and in their reproductive biology. Better known are larger flatworms, either the freshwater planarians, the tropical land-planarians or the often colorful marine polyclads. Phylogenetically the free-living flatworms form the paraphyletic stock that leads to the derived parasitic Neodermata. This volume provides an in-depth insight into the free-living flatworms written by experts. It includes morphology, phylogeny and reproductive biology and contains more than 200 illustrations.

List of contents

Regeneration
[Salo lab, Barcelona]
Embryonic and post-embryonic development of triclad flatworms
Ronald Sluys
Karyology
Giacinta Stocchino
Maricola
Ronald Sluys
Cavernicola
Ronald Sluys
Freshwater planarians (Dugesiidae, Planariidae, Dendrocoelidae, Kenkiidae)
Ronald Sluys
Geoplanidae
Fernando Carbayo, Marta Álvarez-Presas

Product details

• Assisted by: Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa (Editor), Sluys (Editor), Ronald Sluys (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2025
• EAN: 9783111303444
• ISBN: 978-3-11-130344-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Illustrations: 200 col. ill.
• Set: Handbook of Zoology. Platyhelminthes
• Series: Handbook of Zoology; Platyhelminthes
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Evolution, Biology, life sciences, Morphology, Zoology, taxonomy, SCI020000 SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Bryozoa, NAT010000 NATURE / Ecology, Platyhelminthes, reproductive biology., polyclads, NAT045000 NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, planarians