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Similar pointers to Platyhelminthes/Bipalium received from J. Blake, K.
Fauchald. This one will suffice :-) - Yours, a lazy Moderator.
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Dear Steve,
Your enigmatic worm looks like a species of Bipalium. It's a huge animal
among its own group (tricladid platyhelminthes) and it's terrestrial. Please
look for any regional guide to the group or ask in the Invertebrate
Department of the Australian Museum for any further identification; color
marks are very useful and your drawings and memories will be helpful to
identify it by looking at some color photographs.
Best wishes,
Sergio
At 07:00 AM 7/04/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello, I have a small problem, I recently discovered a worm that I have
>never seen or heard of before... I'd dearly love to find out what it is and
>more about it. Sadly I didn't collect the specimen but have made a
>detailed description and drawing on the following link:
>http://www.zeta.org.au/~campbell/worm.htm
La Ciencia del Tercer Mundo no está perdida, sino ignorada.
Third World Science is not lost (Sci. Amer. Aug. 1995:76),
just ignored.
Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo
Depto. Ecología Acuática
ECOSUR, Apdo. Postal 424
Chetumal QR 77000 MEXICO
salazar at ecosur-qroo.mx
Tel. (983) 20115, 21666
Fax (983) 20447
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