LABORATORY V - PLATYHELMINTHES

Read pages 93-116 in Sherman & Sherman

Class Turbellaria

Class Trematoda

Class Cestodea

Living Materials:

Planaria or Dugesia

Prepared Slides:Be sure to take only one at a time from the box on your table.

Class Turbellaria:

Planaria whole mount, cross section.

Bdelloura whole mount.

Class Trematoda:

Clonorchis whole mount, cross section, ova.

Fasciola hepatica whole mount, cross section, ova. Rediae and cercaria whole mount. Sporocysts.

Class Cestoda:

Taenia soliumwhole mount, scolex, mature cross section, gravid, cysticercus.

Echinococcus hydatid cyst.

Demonstration Material:

Various wet museum specimens, see posters and models. Hopefully, living acoel turbellarians on television microscope monitor.

Exercises: (will vary somewhat depending upon delivery of live materials). 4-1a.; 4-1b 4-2I; 4-2ii excercise (black points) 1; 4-2iii exercise 1 4-3I, exercises 1, 2, 4; 4-3ii, exercise 1; 4-3iii 4-4I, exercise 1; 4-4ii; 4-4iii (no exercises) 4-5bi; 4-5bii (no exercises) 4-7, attempt all exercises if time permits.