Stripe-bellied flatworm at Holt, ACT
Identification history
| Parakontikia ventrolineata | 1 Sep 2021 | turb | ||
| Parakontikia ventrolineata | 1 Sep 2021 | trevorpreston |
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Flatworm about 35mm. Is this one diseased or mutated?
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turb
wrote:
1 Sep 2021
The specimen you photographed is gravid, carrying an egg cocoon. The copulatory organs are situated towards the posterior of the body in this genus. It would be interesting to follow this "pregnancy" to see whether the cocoon was expelled ventrally via the gonopore, or dorsally through the body wall. If the latter, this will show in the post-partum planarian as a slight lateral displacement of the median dark stripe. To date I have not seen this in P. ventrolineata, suggesting that the egg cocoon is expelled via the gonopore.
Location information
- Places Holt, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 1 Sep 2021 11:16 AM Recorded on
- trevorpreston Recorded by
Species information
- Parakontikia ventrolineata Scientific name
- Stripe-bellied flatworm Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Non-local native
- Minor Weed or Pest
- Up to 1099.5m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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