The Black planarian at Bruce, ACT
Identification history
| Parakontikia atrata | 20 May 2021 | turb | ||
| Caenoplana coerulea | 20 May 2021 | trevorpreston |
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User's notes
This seemed to be pure black, the stripe is a reflection. Only about 10mm long, is it a juvenile blue garden flatworm?
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turb
wrote:
20 May 2021
From your description (pure black), size, and photo, it is Parakontikia atrata. The species can quite often be found hunting at night along the margins of dams and creeks where it may feed on dead insects and other carrion washed up on the shore. Also feeds upon snails.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.086111-35.251389
- Altitude 647.0m
- Maps Flea Bog Flat, Bruce Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
- Places Bruce, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 May 2021 03:50 PM Recorded on
- trevorpreston Recorded by
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Other Invertebrates Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) trevorpreston Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Parakontikia atrata Scientific name
- The Black planarian Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 808.7m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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