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Description:

What is this thing? Anybody know? It looked to be a gastropod of some sort. The head is what intrigued me. It came out of the grass on a rainy day here in the Dominican Republic.

Species ID Suggestions

planarium

Bipalium kewense
MarcSaisPoch
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Comments (3)
Mark Ridgway
Hi Brett. I think MarcSaisPoch has got it right. Please update the Common and Scientific names. Thanks.
BrettMonroeGarner
A Platyhelminthes! I thought as much when I first saw it but thought it was too big. Thanks!
auntnance123
It's a land planarian of some kind; http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/land_planarians.htm
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2013

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