Sep 2, 2025
Splendid land planarian, Australopacifica splendens, Geoplanidae
Photographed in Aotearoa New Zealand by commoncopper and amanhunt
seen from Türkiye
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Splendid land planarian, Australopacifica splendens, Geoplanidae
Photographed in Aotearoa New Zealand by commoncopper and amanhunt
the infamous bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) of the Neotropics here has fallen prey to a rhynchodemine flatworm, her legendarily powerful sting brandished uselessly in death. a scavenging fly takes its tax of the meal from her thorax as the sated worm moves on.
…the face of a killer.
Oh, oh! Could we perhaps get some nice land planarians? I think people get very mean about them due to the invasive instances and forget how neat they are in their original contexts + how pretty the endemic species are. Love the blog, thank you!
ARE YOU READY TO GET FLAT AND SLIMY?!?!?
Love you too kitten.
A colorful terrestrial planarians (species unidentified), family Geoplanidae, Amazon basin of Peru
photo by Dick Bartlett
Three New Species of Terrestrial Planarians in the genus Cratera (Platyhelminthes, Continenticola) from Araucaria Forests of Southern Brazil
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Toxic Land Planarians (Bipalium sp.) mating, family Geoplanidae, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
photograph by Bernard DuPont | Flickr
hello my dears... striped hammerhead worm today
this is one of those odd-looking creatures that are always exciting to find in the soil after rain. theyre slow moving and appear docile but are pretty efficient predators that can hunt living mollusks and earthworms.
when attacking their prey they use their sticky slime along with their muscular body to hold their prey captive before releasing digestive enzymes which break down the soft body of their prey... which they then absorb through the skin of their bodies. pretty metal for such a small and colourful little worm
slime trail (Diversibipalium rauchi)
Microplana scharffi, a land planarian, in Santa Clara County, California, USA
by Robin Gwen Agarwal
Very strange flatworm.
24/09/23 - Geoplanidae sp.
QLD:WET - El Arish farmland, remnant
Honestly I think land planarians are one of those creatures that are animal in its purest essence. Just look at this guy and his goofy little eyes. It is simply the animal
Hammerhead worm (Bipalium simrothi)
Photo by Arie van der Meijden