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What animal is this?
Topic Started: Mar 11 2013, 06:01 PM (767 Views)
Lgcfm
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The Download Lady

So my dad likes to go trekking (walking on the mountains around here) and yesterday he found this unusual fellow, which we have never seen before and we have no idea what it is. It kind of looks like a flat orange and black slug but we were unable to find any similar slug in either our Chilean wildlife books or the internet.
I was wondering if someone could help us identify what is it, since we are very intrigued xD otherwise I think it's an interesting animal and I wanted to share the photo with you guys. (It was found where I live - central/southern Chile, and according to my dad it was abut 20cm long).
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PS: Maybe we can reuse this thread if anyone else has trouble identifying an animal :P ?
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Stephen
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Stuck on Earth

I don‘t have a clue, at all. Maybe you could contact ZL at Gaia, he seems to know some people who work in zoos, so maybe they can help.
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TEB
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Gwindor son of Guilin

It's a land flatworm.


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YAY for wikipedia ^
Edited by TEB, Mar 11 2013, 06:14 PM.
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Lgcfm
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The Download Lady

Certainly looks like one, thank you! I've never heard of these animals before xD
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

Flatworms are mostly marine.
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Komodo
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Varanus komodoensis

Flatworms are one of my favorite invertebrate groups. You're so lucky, I've never seen one.
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Furka
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Crookedjaw
Mar 11 2013, 06:21 PM
Flatworms are mostly marine.
there are land-based ones too ;)
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

Furka
Mar 12 2013, 03:20 AM
Crookedjaw
Mar 11 2013, 06:21 PM
Flatworms are mostly marine.
there are land-based ones too ;)
I could've guessed that xD
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Jesse
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Experience is the best teacher

Hmm, it looks like a marine animal... But I never seen this animal before!
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Lgcfm
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The Download Lady

Apparently most flatworms are marine but some live in moist forest soil and there are also parasytes :P
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Varanus komodoensis

There are marine and terrestrial free-life flatworms as Turbellaries. Most of them are parasites, like cestods and trematods.
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