oh no. they are most definitely parasitic worms. they can get inside a persons body and live off their food supply in the person's intestines. They can grow quite long too, about 27 or more feet.
A flatworm can be Parasitic or Free-living. One way you can tell whether its a Free-Living is it does not need a host. Parasitic need a host so they can feed off of them.
B. Planaria
There is no specific scientific name, there is only a Greek root word.
Flatworms are one of the few animals that have the capability to produce sexually or asexually. To reproduce asexually, they must split and regenerate using a technique called binary fusion.
flatworms are the only triploblastic organisms that lack a coelom
Only some flatworms, usually the smaller species, have small "hairs" called cilia on their skin.
facts about flatworms
Yes flatworms are invertebrates
Flatworms are in the Platyhelminthesphylum.
parasitic
The scientific name for flatworms is Platyhelminthes.
There are only two layers.Endoderm layer and ectoderm layer.
i really have NO idea
Yes, Cats can be a host for flatworms.