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[edit] Planarium

What this page needs is a picture or diagram of a common planaria.

Agreed. Especially since a good portion of "us" and by us I mean American society, and by American society I mean people who maintain and edit Wikipedia (again mostly) remember doing the same experiment in Junior High Biology. Wow, that was a run-on sentence speaking of pre-high school ed.
Anyway yeah, Planarians were the one of "examples" in Biology class of taxonomic classification. No more apparently. We have "New Science" now to go along with the miserable failure of "New Math." 72.0.175.144 (talk) 04:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Dusesia tigrina is probably a good candidate for a "common planaria". According to this article itself, "The most frequently used in the high school and first-year college laboratories is the brownish Dugesia tigrina." Unfortunately, the Dugesia page does not have a picture. --Jmz9466 (talk) 04:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reconciliation of Taxon and Picture

I gave this page a proper taxobox, but then realized that the genus name of the picture caption is in conflict with the taxonomic info I put down. The source I'm using is www.itis.usda.gov and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info out there for the Schmidtea genus, but I don't want to just go and change it. Anyone who has more info than I (possibly the originator of the picture) is more than welcome to try and fix this inconsistency. Cerealkiller13 05:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I've just found a almost feet long planarian in my kitchen in Santa Barbara, California.shith

Wow; that's really gross. Yes fascinating. Where did you find it? Scorpionman 22:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regenerate

Regenerate

Scientistsare trying despiratly to find a way to regenerate limbs in humans. One creature that can regenerate even half of its body in a couple of days is the planaria. My class did an experiment on planaria. The experiment was if you put different pollutants in the water where the planaria lived, whould it change their regeneration rate. In my before sentence, by mistake I avoid the number 2, so the size of the planarian I have found in Santa Barbara, Ca, is almost 2 feet long.

These truly are amazing creatures. So why can't mammals and fish and insects and birds do that too? Why should we have to go through life without an arm or die without a head if planarians can just regenerate a new one? Scorpionman 17:02, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Because Planarian are extremely simple creatures. They're mostly tissue. Its easy to regrow their body parts because they're isnt much there. We have bones and tendons and ligaments and things and a much more complex structure

[edit] Reverted Vandalism

I got rid of some vandalism. The only reason I am posting is becaue it seemed to be there for a while. Somebody has got to take better care of this page... Eiyuu Kou 09:33, 26 Feburary 2007 (PTC) hey ok....well planarians are so cool......they are very small.....and they have a brain size of a microscopic item.....chocolate is very good!!!

[edit] Naming

The article seems to use "planaria" interchangeably as a singular and plural, and the title of the article is "planarium" even though elsewhere it uses "planarian" as the singular. I thought "planaria" was plural, and "planarian" was the correct singular. I don't think I've ever heard "planarium" elsewhere; it sounds incorrect. This kind of thing should be easy to find a reference for. Would someone care to do so, and if (as I suspect) "planarium" is an aberration, rename the article to the correct singular?

  • I think you're right; "Planarian" seems to be more standard as the name for a single flatworm: it has ~186,000 hits on google vs. ~700 for "Planarium." I tried to move this page, but since "Planarian" already exists as a redirect page, it wouldn't let me... does someone who knows how to do this want to give it a try? I've added it to Wikipedia:Requested moves. Bencoland 11:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Use English, not Neo-Latin. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 04:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Support I got slightly different numbers (86,000 for planarian vs. 3,100 for planarium[1]), but that's still very convincing --Lox (t,c) 22:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
This page has been moved from "Planarium" to "Planarian" as the result of a move proposal listed at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Dekimasuよ! 02:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)