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  3. ›Rhabditophora
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  5. ›Continenticola
  6. ›Geoplanoidea
  7. ›Land Planarians
  8. ›Hammerhead Worms
  9. ›Bipalium
Shovel-headed Garden Worm
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Shovel-headed Garden Worm

Bipalium kewense

Bipalium kewense is a species of large predatory land planarian with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is sometimes referred to as a "hammerhead flatworm" due to its half-moon-shaped head, but this name is also used to refer to other species in the subfamily Bipaliinae.

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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 64221.