A brief Introduction to phylum Aschelminthes There are several classes of animals where a pseudocoel is the area inside the body. It is not a true coelom because it is not filled with mesodermal epithelium, and it represents an embryonic blastocoel that survives. Such animal classes are known as pseudocoelomates (presence of a cavity, the pseudocoel, between the intestine and the body wall), and are often classified within a single superphylum aschelminthes. Gegenbaur (1859) created a group nemathelminthis to place some pseudocoelomates animal. General Characters- 1. Mostly aquatic, free living or parasitic. 2. Usually small, even microscopic. 3. Body slender, vermiform, unsegmented, flator cylindrical, bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic. 4. Organ system grade of body organization. 5.Head not distinctily formed with well-defined sense organs. 6. Body wall is with a syncytial or cellular epidermis externally covered wit...