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The text at that section mentions McConnell's experiments on flatworms reacting to electric shocks and bright light, but then midway changes to talk about what I would assume to be some sort of experiment with flatworms following mazes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.77.226.178 ( talk) 22:04, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
What this page needs is a picture or diagram of a common planaria.
Roses are good smelling ````` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.177.18 ( talk) 02:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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
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!!!
the film "twilight" which is popular among young people briefly references Planaria - it seems its symbolism is to be the non-parasitic parasite. i'm not sure if this information is helpful, but there does always seem to be a pop-culture explanation for wikipedia vandalism especially of obscure article topics such as that in question.
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?
About the "tail dropping" subject, and overfeeding, all that information came in the "instruction" manual that came with my planarian. Montgomery' 39 ( talk) 23:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
I removed the part of the artical stating that Planarians are penis shaped becuase no one needs to know this
Valserian ( talk) 00:34, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Can you please include a section stating the diet of this animal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Valserian ( talk • contribs) 22:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
In this article there're a confusion involving two terms Planariidae (in the taxbox and in the beginning of the definition) and Planarian that does reference to some groups of the Turbellaria clade. Planarian is not a phylogenetic clade, just like " worm". The Planariidae is a clade that comprises only some genera of freshwater flatworms.-- Edsova ( talk) 08:46, 4 July 2009 (UTC)PAnd, In fact, they do not use cilia to move. They use something like cilia called setae. Look it up!
I'm fairly certain that the second image in the article is an acoel and not a planarian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.126.52.161 ( talk) 22:25, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
The "Biochemical memory experiments" section describes an experiment with light exposure. At the end of the section, it says "No blinded experiment has ever reproduced his results of 'maze-running'." The maze running experiment was never previously mentioned, so I think something is missing here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.145.81.211 ( talk) 17:37, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
This article deals exclusively with triclad flatworms, which are the organisms usually called "planarian". Although the article Tricladida states that the name "planarian" is also used for other flatworms, this occurs very rarely, thus "planarian" is basically a synonym, i.e., a colloquial name, of "triclad". Having a detailed description of triclad flatworms in a page named "planarian" while leaving the page "Tricladida" so poorly written only lets important and related information apart and, in order to avoid duplicating information in two pages that deal with the same subject, it would be better to turn them into a single page. Piter Keo ( talk • contribs) 16:18, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
If the point of this is transfer of memory/learned behavior to the next generation, then the text should probably say "Thompson and McConnell found that if they cut the worm in two, and allowed both worms to regenerate each half would display the light-shock reaction." Developing it would not be remarkable if all planaria could do it. -- 2607:FEA8:FF01:79BF:317A:5818:FAB4:18BD ( talk) 01:00, 21 October 2021 (UTC)