Adelaide's Planarian:

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) - Free-living Flatworms (Rhabditophora)

Order:

Planarians (Tricladida)

Family:

Flatworm (Geoplanidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Adelaide's Planarian (Artioposthia adelaidensis)

This Photo:

Other names:

Pretty Land Planarian or Flatworm

Thank you Dr Leigh Winsor for identifying and Reiner Richter for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line
1st Record on Atlas
Very variable in size, ~45mm, as they can easily stretch out or compress. Weight would be a much more useful measure.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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