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National Invasive Species Information Center
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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New Guinea Flatworm

Scientific Name

Platydemus manokwari de Beauchamp, 1962 (ITIS)

Common Name

New Guinea flatworm

Native To

Originally described from Papua New Guinea (Justine et al. 2015)

Date of U.S. Introduction

First found in Florida in 2012 (Justine et al. 2015)

Means of Introduction

Unknown; land flatworms have been known to be introduced in the soil of imported plants (Sluys 2016)

Impact

Predator of land snails (Justine et al. 2015)

New guinea flatworm

Platydemus manokwari in Coral Gables, Florida

Credit

Photo by Makiri Sai

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