Shovel-headed Garden Worm

Bipalium kewense

Summary 2

Bipalium kewense is a species of large predatory land planarian with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is sometimes referred to as a "hammerhead flatworm" due to its half-moon-shaped head, but this name is also used to refer to other species in the subfamily Bipaliinae.

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  1. (c) Jean-Lou Justine​, Leigh Winsor, Delphine Gey, Pierre Gros, and Jessica Thévenot, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Figure_03_(PeerJ_4672)_-_Bipalium_kewense.png
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipalium_kewense

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