#4944 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co

Donkere landplatworm

Microplana terrestris

🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Rand Workman · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © LOPEZ André · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © aegolius99 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © David Anderson · CC BY 4.0
5. © Sara Scharf · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. Southfield, MI, USA:© no rights reserved · CC0
7. Alabama, US:© avanstaa · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Lobau, Wien, Österreich:© Philip Schaffer · CC BY 4.0
9. Connecticut, US:© Ray G. Cama · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Oak Bay, BC, Canada:© Holly Partridge · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Microplana terrestris is a species of free-living, terrestrial flatworm in the order Tricladida. It was first described in 1773 by the Danish naturalist Otto Friedrich Müller as Fasciola terrestris , but has since been reassigned to the genus Microplana .

base stats

NL sightings 6iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 452iNaturalist observations

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).