Identification Resources
The turbellarians are relatively poorly studied and many species remained undescribed. Identification to species level often relies on detailed examination of the internal anatomy6.
However the book "Marine Flatworms: the world of polyclads", by Leslie Newman and Lester Cannon6, contains useful information on separating polyclad families as well as a selection of colour photographs of species. A CD-rom from the same authors, "Fabulous flatworms: a guide to marine polyclads", contains much of the same information as well as some additional material (see bibliographies: further reading).
A useful website, providing information on turbellarian biology as well as a selection of polyclad species, is http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/index.html.
Additionally an online key to over 900 species of flatworm may be found at http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Rhabditophora&flags=not_no:. |