Planaria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Class
- Order
- Tricladida
- Family
- Planariidae
- Genus
- Planaria
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Planaria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Planaria
Planaria is a genus of planarians in the family Planariidae. Due to its excellent ability to regenerate, species of Planaria have also been used as model organisms in regeneration studies. When an individual is cut into pieces, each piece has the ability to regenerate into a fully formed individual. When decapitated, they retain their memories.
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