Land Planarians
Geoplanidae
Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms.
These flatworms are mainly predators of other invertebrates, which they hunt, attack and capture using physical force and the adhesive and digestive properties of their mucus. They lack water-retaining mechanisms and are therefore very sensitive to humidity variations of their environment.
6 branches of this family, most-observed first
Rhynchodeminae
subfamilyRhynchodeminae
Hammerhead Worms
subfamilyBipaliinae
Neotropical Land Planarians
subfamilyGeoplaninae
Microplaninae
subfamilyMicroplaninae
Timyminae
subfamilyTimyminae
Eudoxiatopoplana
genusEudoxiatopoplana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 84642.