#dalyellia

[adelicateculturecell]

"The flatworms are the simplest of all. Starting with the coelom: flatworms don't actually have one. That area between the gut and body wall where annelids and nematodes have a cavity full of fluid is instead full of tissue.”

Journey to the Microcosmos- Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes

Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs

[adelicateculturecell]

“If we think of worms in general as a gut enclosed within a body wall, then the gut is a tube and the body is a tube, and you can imagine that worms are a tube inside a tube”

Journey to the Microcosmos- Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes

Annelid 200x, Dalyellia 630x, Nematode 200x, Flatworm 200x, Flatworm 200x, Stylaria lacustris 200x

Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs

[adelicateculturecell]

"What are worms, other than wiggly, self-mating tubes? While we generally use the word "worm" to describe many different, unrelated, invertebrate, tubular animals that belong to a number of different phyla...."

Journey to the Microcosmos- Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes 

Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs

Stenostomum 200x, Dalyellia 200x, Nematode 400x, Rhabdocoela 200x, Flatworm 200x, Stylaria lacustris 630x