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Planarians are free living and not parasitic. Other classes of their phylum, including flukes and tapeworms, are parasitic when they live inside another organism.
Turbellarians
If you want one word that will describe how tapeworms and flukes get their food, that word is parasitism.
platyhelminthes
Well I only know worms, but I hope it can help you.. bristle worms, earthworms, liver flukes, leeches, hookworms, ringworm, tapeworms, whipworms, pinworms, tricladida, planarians, woodworms... That's all I know!!
roundworms, tapeworms, and flukes
Platyhelminthes.
Flatworms - classified as having a flat leaf or flat ribbon shaped body and a pair of eyes up front. Most are parasitic.Examples of the flatworm include Tricladida, flukes, and tapeworms.Roundworms (aka nematodes) - has over 80,000 species which many of are parasitic. They have round bodies of varied sizes.Examples of the roundworm include whipworms, hookworms, and pinworms.Segmented Worms - As their name describes, their bodies are divided into segments.Examples of the segmented worm include the bristle worm and earthworms.
they are consumer or predators and they are parasitic like tapeworms and flukes
they are consumer or predators and they are parasitic like tapeworms and flukes
although most flatworms are aquatic, probably the best known flatworms are parasitic. Tapeworms (cestodes) and flukes (digeneans) are a couple of well-known flatworms.
Trinchinosis is usually caused by eating flukes in raw fish