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Common name- Tiger Flatworm
Scientific Name- Maritigrella crozierae
Class-Turbellaria
Location- Ranges from South Carolina to Florida; throughout the Caribbean and Bermuda
Description of habitat- Tropical Areas
Facts-
1) Sometimes identified as Pseudoceros crozieri
2) The pigment in the skin of this flatworm is in "tiger" pattern
3) Maritigrella crozierae is highly abundant and is the most common flatworm in southeast Florida to the Caribbean
4) The Tiger Flatworm has a predatory relationship with its only source of food– the orange tunicate. Because of it’s bright coloration that indicates it’s unappetizing abundance of chemical compounds, the flatworm is rarely preyed upon
With about 25,000 known species they are the largest phylum of acoelomates (any organism that lacks a cavity between the body wall and the digestive tract) including flat worms, so they are not extinct or endangered. Humans do not have much of an effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO7QPFTfJuc&feature=player_embedded
Citations:
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2011/arndt_jord/inter.htm
http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/MarineInvertebrateZoology/Pseudoceroscrozieri.html
http://www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Martigr_crozier.htm
Scientific Name- Maritigrella crozierae
Class-Turbellaria
Location- Ranges from South Carolina to Florida; throughout the Caribbean and Bermuda
Description of habitat- Tropical Areas
Facts-
1) Sometimes identified as Pseudoceros crozieri
2) The pigment in the skin of this flatworm is in "tiger" pattern
3) Maritigrella crozierae is highly abundant and is the most common flatworm in southeast Florida to the Caribbean
4) The Tiger Flatworm has a predatory relationship with its only source of food– the orange tunicate. Because of it’s bright coloration that indicates it’s unappetizing abundance of chemical compounds, the flatworm is rarely preyed upon
With about 25,000 known species they are the largest phylum of acoelomates (any organism that lacks a cavity between the body wall and the digestive tract) including flat worms, so they are not extinct or endangered. Humans do not have much of an effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO7QPFTfJuc&feature=player_embedded
Citations:
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2011/arndt_jord/inter.htm
http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/MarineInvertebrateZoology/Pseudoceroscrozieri.html
http://www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Martigr_crozier.htm