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  Phylum Platyhelminthes

grade "Turbellaria" (free-living flatworms)

    Class Catenulida -- Wisconsin!
    Class Rhabditophora -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Vortex
    Genus Anotocelis

Taxon Information

The grade "Turbellaria" has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Turbellaria, [1303 freshwater species in 181 genera worldwide] (Schockaert et al., 2008).
• Turbellaria, [Wisconsin, USA] (Pennak, 1940).

Bibliography

• Kolasa, J. & S. Tyler. 2010. Flatworms: Turbellarians and Nemerteans. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 143-161.
• Schockaert, E.R., M. Hooge, R. Sluys, S. Schilling, S. Tyler & T. Artois. 2008. Global diversity of free living flatworms (Platyhelminthes, “Turbellaria”) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 41-48. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Platyhelminthes (free-living flatworms). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 77-108.
• Kenk, R. 1972. Freshwater planarians (Turbellaria) of North America. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems Identification Manual 1. 81 pp. [Available online]
• Hyman, L.H. & E.R. Jones. 1959. Turbellaria. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 323-365.
• Pennak, R.W. 1940. Ecology of the microscopic Metazoa inhabiting the sandy beaches of some Wisconsin lakes. Ecological Monographs 10(4): 537-615. [Available online]

Student Essays

• "Biological Control of Mosquitos Through the Implementation of Flatworms" by Collin Rogers (BIOL/WATR 361, Spring 2015 )

Web Pages

• A Wisconsin Bestiary
• Animal Diversity Web
• Tree of Life
• Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Register of Marine Species