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Turbellaria

Class of nonparasitic flatworms commonly called planarians.



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Drills, crabs, and Stylochus turbellarians are all active predators in Delaware Bay (Stauber 1943, McDermott & Flower 1952, Maurer & Watling 1973, Ismail 1985) and likely do not leave boxes behind when they die or leave behind boxes of small individuals that rapidly disarticulate.
We noted the presence of three different parasites, rickettsies, gill turbellarians, and intestine turbellarians observed at low prevalence of 3.
Parasites, like copepods (Caceres-Martinez & Vasquez-Yeomans 1999) and turbellarians (Murina & Solonchenko 1991), were abundant in the populations that we studied (unpublished data).
 
 
 
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