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Spotting

Description:

A pinkish orange colour, looks almost like a leech.

Habitat:

Found this in vegetable leaves.

Notes:

If anyone has any idea what this is, it would be appreciated. :)

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Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Hi toddies... this is a terrestrial flatworm or geoplanarian. This orange one might be an Aussie invader called Australoplana alba
http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/turbellaria...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand...

twolittletoddies
Spotted by
twolittletoddies

Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

Spotted on Aug 5, 2012
Submitted on Sep 25, 2014

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