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Black worm with a faint olive stripe running along its back.
Appears terrestrial
I spotted this crawling on the wall inside my house in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, Luzon Island, Philippines. In the photo the tail is on the left and fatter than the head end. Smooth, non-segmented, round not flat. Eyespots were not observed. FYI: It is rainy season here, so we're getting downpours nearly every day - that may have something to do with its appearance inside my home.
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There are some terrestrial tubbelarids known colloquially as planaria. Sorry for that. It looks similar to an invasive flat worm we have in the united states called Caenoplana coerulea, or the Blue Planarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenoplana_...). Considering you are in the Philippines though I have no idea!
As I understand, planarians are aquatic flatworms, but this one is round and appears to be terrestrial, so I don't think it's a planarian.
Some sort of land planarian, very cool!