Enantiidae is a family of

flatworm Platyhelminthes (from the Greek language, Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a Phylum (biology), phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, Segmentation (biology), ...

belonging to the order

Polycladida The Polycladida represents a highly diverse clade of free-living marine flatworms. They are known from the littoral to the sublittoral zone (extending to the deep hot vents), and many species are common from coral reefs. Only a few species are fo ...

Description

Members of Enantiidae have a smooth, ovoid body, with no presence of tentacles. The mouth is located at the anterior end behind the brain. The

pharynx The pharynx (: pharynges) is the part of the throat behind the human mouth, mouth and nasal cavity, and above the esophagus and trachea (the tubes going down to the stomach and the lungs respectively). It is found in vertebrates and invertebrates ...

is bell-shaped. The male copulatory apparatus is simple, with a forward-directed seminal vesicle behind the pharyngeal sac.Graff, L. von. (1889). Enantia spinifera, der Repräsentant einer neuen Polycladen-Familie. ''Naturwiss Vereines f Steiermark'', pp 5-16 +1pl.

Taxonomy

Enantiidae currently holds two genera:

References

Rhabditophora {{Flatworm-stub