#4949 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Blue Garden Flatworm
🇳🇱 Blauwe tuinplatworm ·Caenoplana coerulea
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Tewantin QLD 4565, Australia
📍 New South Wales, AU
📍 Swanson, Auckland, New Zealand
📍 Urliup NSW 2484, Australia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © rogstanden · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © cootaame · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © teejaybee · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougbeckers/ · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Maurice · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Tewantin QLD 4565, Australia:© Anne Yukich · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. New South Wales, AU:© Julie Newton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Swanson, Auckland, New Zealand:© Tj T · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Urliup NSW 2484, Australia:© Sandy · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Caenoplana coerulea , known as the Blue Planarian or Blue Garden Flatworm is a species of land planarian.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,064 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Henry Nottidge Moseley in 1877 (149 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blue Garden Flatworm
- Nederlands
- Blauwe tuinplatworm
- scientific name
- Caenoplana coerulea
- order
- Tricladida
- family
- Geoplanidae
- sightings in NL
- 5
- sightings in Europe
- 67
- sightings worldwide
- 3,064
- GBIF records in NL
- 28
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1877 by Henry Nottidge Moseley
relatives· Geoplanidae
#4924 📷 10Snake-headed Flatworm
🇳🇱 Tweelijnige landplatworm
Rhynchodemus sylvaticus
👀 10 in NL
#4934 📷 10Obama Flatworm
🇳🇱 Grote gevlekte landplatworm
Obama nungara
👀 8 in NL
#4943 📷 10two-tone planarian
🇳🇱 Grote Australische geelstreep
Caenoplana variegata
👀 6 in NL
#4944 📷 10Donkere landplatworm
Microplana terrestris
👀 6 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121271, Wikidata Q1895320, GBIF 2502810, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.