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How are planaria adapted to be free-living?
How are Planaria free living?What are some adaptations of Planaria?Is Planaria a free living animal?What are the adaptations of free living flatworms...
What do dugesia eat?
What do they eat?aquatic or marine worms.aquatic crustaceans. How does dugesia feed?What does a planaria usually eat?What can you feed planaria?What d...
How do planarians feed?
The planarian eats small animals or larger animals that have died. ... To ingest (swallow) food, the planarian extends its pharynx out of its mouth. T...
What eats planaria?
Of course, certain types of fish or shrimp can be put into the aquarium as natural predators to the planaria. Certain loaches like the hovering Zebra ...
What are two characteristics of planaria?
Planaria have three germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm), and are acoelomate (they have a very solid body with no body cavity). They have a ...
What do planaria eat?
Planaria are carnivores, feeding on a variety of smaller invertebrates such as shrimp and water fleas in aquatic habitats, or other small worms. Some ...
How do planaria eat?
Planaria eat living or dead small animals that they suck up with their muscular mouths. Food passes from the mouth through the pharynx into the intest...
How are planarians an animal?
A planarian is one of many flatworms of the traditional class Turbellaria. It usually describes free-living flatworms of the order Tricladida (triclad...
Where in the world are planarian found?
Planaria are common to many parts of the world, living in both saltwater and freshwater ponds and rivers. Some species are terrestrial and are found u...