A planaria obtains food by using eyespots and special "smelling" cells to locate food. Then the planaria inserts a feeding tube and releases digestive chemicals. Then the planaria sucks up the half digested bits of food. Lovely, isn't it!
Planaria can eat all sorts of things; typically, they are fed liver or cooked egg yolk in labs. In nature, they feed off segmented worms or dead fish.
Planarians: They eat or will eat other living as well as dead invertebrates, also as well as debris and decaying organic matter.
Pet planaria eat hard boiled egg yolks and unseasoned cooked hamburger meat.
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The planaria class is Turbellaria
Planaria are type of animals. Animals are not photosynthetic
planeriacomes under kingdom animalea
sp refers to a planaria where the actual species is undetermined...or sometimes because several species of planaria have similar appearance or behavior and have been used in a study.
Planaria exist only in fresh waters.
Usually a planaria regeneration experiment involves cutting the planaria into different parts. The head can be separated from the tail or the planaria can be cut lengthwise, etc. After cutting the planaria, it will be observed for few days noting how the organism regenerate its lost body parts. Read more on planaria regeneration on t he link provided below.
Planaria prefer dark environments
The scientific name for planaria is flatworms in the class Turbellaria, with species such as Dugesia tigrina commonly used in research and education.
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Planaria images can be found in most high school or "first" biology/zoologycollege, text books.
Planaria falls under the kingdom of animalia. so some would be heterotrophic, multicellular, and eukaryotic.