Species Profile
Dugesia
Planarian
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumPlatyhelminthes
ClassTurbellaria
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Dugesia lives in freshwater ponds and streams.
It is free-living and carnivorous.
Used widely in regeneration studies.
Size & Structure
01
Flat, elongated body
02
Triangular head with eyespots
03
Soft and unsegmented
04
Brown or black colour
Dugesia — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular and intracellular
- Nervous system
- Ladder-like nervous system
- Excretory organ
- Flame cells
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Organ level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Predator of small invertebrates
Part of freshwater food web
Indicator of clean water
Economic Importance
Regeneration research model
Teaching specimen
Scientific importance