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What are the peculiar features that you find in parasitic platyhelminthes??

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The peculiar features that you find in parasitic platyhelminths are: 

1. They have dorsoventrally flattened bodies and bear hooks and suckers to get attached inside the host body. 

2, Loss of locomotory organs

3. The digestive system is absent in such kind of organisms.

4. They mostly show an anaerobic type of respiration.

5. Their body is covered with thick tegument which protects them from the action of digestive juices of the host.

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