Caenoplana coerulea (Blue Planarian, Blue Garden Flatworm)
<p>Further reference: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenoplana">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenoplana</a></p>
<p>There are two species in this photograph. The dark blue specimen on the left is Caenoplana coerulea, and the other specimen is Caenoplana bicolor.</p>,<p>Phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms), class 'Turbellaria' (free-living flatworms), order Seriata, family Geoplanidae.</p>
<p>Original description from Moseley 1877. “Eyes absent from the front of the anterior extremity, but present in two lateral elongate crowded patches placed just behind the anterior extremity and scattered sparsely on the lateral margins of the body for its entire extent. Entire body of a dark prussian blue colour, somewhat lighter on the under surface of the body and with a single, narrow, mesial, dorsal, longitudinal stripe of white. Length 5cm, extreme breadth 4mm, mouth central, generative aperture 8mm, posterior to the mouth.”</p>
Caenoplana coerulea is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | South Coast | New South Wales North Coast | Hume
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Species information
- Caenoplana coerulea Scientific name
- Blue Planarian, Blue Garden Flatworm Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1809.4m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Location information
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Maps
ANBG South Annex Aranda Bushland Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Bullen Range Campbell Park Woodland City Renewal Authority Area Crace Grasslands Dryandra St Woodland Farrer Ridge Flea Bog Flat, Bruce Ginninderry Conservation Corridor Gorman Road Bush Reserve, Goulburn Gossan Hill Goulburn Mulwaree Council Goulburn Wetlands Gungaderra Grasslands Kosciuszko National Park Lyneham Wetland Molonglo River Reserve Mount Ainslie Mount Gray Recreation Reserve, Goulburn Mount Painter Mount Rogers Red Hill Nature Reserve Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South Tallaganda National Park The Pinnacle Tuggeranong Hill Tumut State Forest Umbagong District Park Urambi Hills Wandiyali-Environa Conservation Area Watson Woodlands Wee Jasper Nature Reserve West Goulburn Bushland Reserve Woodstock Nature Reserve -
Places
Goulburn, NSW Perisher Valley, NSW Thredbo, NSW
