The digestive cavity has only one opening for both ingestion (intake of nutrients) and egestion (removal of undigested wastes) as a result, the food cannot be processed continuously. Unlike other bilaterians, they are acoelomates (having no body cavity), and have no specialised circulatory and respiratory organs, which restricts them to having flattened shapes that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through their bodies by diffusion. The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, platy, meaning 'flat' and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), helminth-, meaning 'worm') are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates. Encourages Member States to adopt emergency measures pursuant to Article 10 of the above Regulation where necessary.Possible Cambrian, Ordovician and Devonian records īedford's flatworm, Pseudobiceros bedfordi Encourages the Commission to launch a flatworm monitoring programme and early warning mechanism and to classify flatworms as an exotic invasive species under Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 Ģ. whereas flatworms are not yet present on European soil, but that, according to researchers from the French Institute of Systems, Evolution and Biodiversity under the direction of Jean-Lou Justine, the introduction of an early warning mechanism is justified ġ. whereas the New Guinea flatworm, an invasive worm which has the potential to destabilise biological and environmental diversity, has been found in Florida (USA), putting the entire country at risk ī. – having regard to Rule 133 of its Rules of Procedure,Ī.

– having regard to Article 191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

B8-0107/2017 Motion for a European Parliament resolution on the spread of the New Guinea flatworm

New guinea flat worms