![]() ![]() The prey is digested or semi digested and converted into a Digestive juices usually found in stomach of animals are poured over the prey. Flat worms are primitive animals having flat body and peculiar feeding habits where the pharynx or the first part of digestive system is thrown out of the mouth. The animal presently found is not a parasite but a free living terrestrial flatworm. Flatworms belong to phylum platyhelminthes and also include other animals like liver fluke which is a parasite in the liver of vertebrates and tapeworms which are parasites of the intestines of many animals. What started out as mere curiosity,resulted in a full-fledged project about its habits and other aspects that is currently going on at the Institute.īipalium is called hammerhead worm owing to its hammerhead shaped anterior part. The specimen was collected and was identified to be a terrestrial flatworm called Bipalium,also known as a hammerhead worm. Last month,when a group of students at the Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Science (YCIS),Satara,were in the process of searching for varieties of spiders and collecting earthworms for a science-related project,they came across a worm gliding over a layer of slime. ![]()
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