I am trying to find out what the typical Body weight of the freshwater planarian Dugesia japonica is. I want to judge whether the biomass loading in an exposure experiment with 5 animals in 50 ml is exceeded or not. All I know is that they are about one cm in length.
I found in one particular work:
Dugesia japonica japonica is 2-3 cm long and middle section of it (wet: 6-8 mg) it looks like one Dugesia japonica should weigh approx. 15-18 mg (wet)
You can find more information on the book(Seth Tyler_1991):
Turbellarian Biology (page 34 and page 175)
ISBN_10: 9401127751
https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=WXTyCAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=tr#v=onepage&q=weight&f=false
Many thanks for this! They only specified the weight of the sections they cut...but at least is gives me a rough idea.
Cheers
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