Bipalium kewense, also known as the shovel-headed garden worm, is a species of large predatory land planarian with a cosmopolitan distribution.[1][2] It is sometimes referred to as a "hammerhead flatworm" due to its half-moon-shaped head, but this name is also used to refer to other species in the subfamily Bipaliinae.
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^Justine, Jean-Lou; Winsor, Leigh; Gey, Delphine; Gros, Pierre; Thévenot, Jessica (2018). "Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories". PeerJ. 6: e4672. doi:10.7717/peerj.4672. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5969052. PMID 29844951.
Bipaliumkewense, also known as the shovel-headed garden worm, is a species of large predatory land planarian with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is sometimes...
easily distinguishable from other common species of Bipalium, such as Bipaliumkewense and Bipalium pennsylvanicum, because these have a head in the shape...
freshwater forms more than 500 mm (20 in) long or terrestrial species like Bipaliumkewense which can reach 600 mm (24 in) in length. All the larger forms are...
of several nemerteans which make use of defensive toxic secretions Bipaliumkewense, the hammerhead flatworm, is coated in toxic mucus Negombata magnifica...
Several hammerhead flatworms have become invasive, the most famous being Bipaliumkewense, now in many countries in all continents except the Antarctica. A 2022...
of the two other species previously sampled from the Geoplanidae, Bipaliumkewense and Obama nungara; however, the mitogenome of Platydemus manokwari...
found in several European countries. It is superficially similar to Bipaliumkewense, which is even more widespread in the world, but can be easily distinguished...
the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 496–507; BHL 1886. Note on Bipaliumkewense and the generic characters of Land-Planarians. Proceedings of the Zoological...
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