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Arrow-Headed Flatworm

Posted by August 14th, 2005 at 12:00 am

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Hi Bugman,
Any ideas what this is. Found it in my yard in June 2003. Sorry, some of the pictures are fuzzy.
Regards,
Denis

Hi Denis,
Your Arrow-Headed Flatworm is actually a species of Planarium introduced, probably accidentally. It was first described in a greenhouse in Kew Gardens in London in 1878.

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