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Spotting

Description:

Black worm with a faint olive stripe running along its back.

Habitat:

Appears terrestrial

Notes:

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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3 Comments

JakeFrancis
JakeFrancis 11 years ago

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!

rwbehne1
rwbehne1 11 years ago

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.

JakeFrancis
JakeFrancis 11 years ago

Some sort of land planarian, very cool!

rwbehne1
Spotted by
rwbehne1

San Jose, Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Spotted on Aug 27, 2012
Submitted on Aug 27, 2012

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