Friday, April 15, 2016

Interesting Invertebrate

The fuchsia flatworm is a simple bilateral animal with a solid body and an incomplete gut, it is a beautiful creature! This invertebrate is fuchsia with a red and orange border along with white dots all over its body and its length ranges from 18-48 mm. This rare species has bright colors to warn predators about poison. They are found near the waters of Hawaii, Australia, and the Philippines. They live in the external slope or upper coral reef and crawl around to find food. Flatworms are in the kingdom Animalia, Platyhelminthes phyla and in the family Pseudocerotid. Fuchsia flatworms are actually a very rare species of flatworm and has very defining characteristics that others don't really have. Is this species parasitic or just poisonous?





Bibliography:
http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52325-Pseudoceros-ferrugineus
https://www.sites.google.com/site/infowhenyouneedit/fuchsia-flatworms
https://diverdave.smugmug.com/Invertebrates/Nudibranchs-Univalves-and/i-QGdVVDz/0/M/INFWH%200002-M.jpg


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