Bipalium kewense
Hammerhead flatworm at Berry, NSW
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| Bipalium kewense | MichaelBedingfield | 19 Apr 2024 | |
| Bipalium kewense | Megan123 | 30 Aug 2019 |
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Significant sighting
trevorpreston noted:
19 Apr 2024
This is the first report of this exotic flatworm on South Coast NatureMapr.
User's notes
From the Aust Museum: The Shovel-headed Garden Worm, like other flatworms, does not have a respiratory or circulatory system, a skeleton, or an anus. The mouth, which also serves as the anus, is found near the middle of the body on the lower, or ventral, side. It has a protrusible muscular pharynx that is used as a feeding organ; this is attached to a three-branched intestine. It has a cluster of nerves at the head end that serves as a brain, and this is connected to a ladder-like nervous system, circular and longitudinal muscles for movement, and a primitive excretory system.
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Location information
- Coordinates 150.678039-34.774981
- Places Berry, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 30 Aug 2019 08:15 AM Recorded on
- Megan123 Recorded by
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- Significant Megan123 South Coast NatureMapr Bipalium kewense Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) Other Invertebrates
Species information
- Bipalium kewense Scientific name
- Hammerhead flatworm Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 640m Recorded at altitude
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