![]() Symptoms & Life CycleĪ voracious predator of introduced and endemic snails, plus other terrestrial molluscs as well as earthworms. Snails, slugs, and other species of flatworms, and invertebrate animals such as earthworms and cockroaches. The flatworm is known from lowlands to more than 3500 m (Papua New Guinea). It is recorded from Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland), Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei), Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna. ![]() Southeast and East Asia (Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Republic of Maldives, Singapore, Thailand), North America (Hawaii and Florida), Europe (restricted – hot-house in France), the Caribbean (Puerto Rico), Oceania. The flatworm uses a white cylindrical tube to feed that is visible on the underside. The New Guinea flatworm, Platydemus manokwari, feeding on a snail. Head grayish, with two prominent eyes either side of a snout-like tip.Photo 2. Broad, tapered at each end upper surface olive-brown with thin cream stripes along the middle and sides where brown fades to the cream belly. It is in the top 100 of the worst invasive species and is seriously threatening endemic snail species in some Pacific island nations. Introduced to some Pacific Islands to control the Giant African snail pest. Feeds on native and introduced snails and other litter fauna. Transported around the Pacific with cultivated plants. Introduced into north Queensland from New Guinea. ![]() Under very wet conditions may be encountered crawling on pathways and up the sides of buildings. ![]() Found exclusively in human-modified habitat, especially urban and public gardens in litter and under rocks and rotting logs also in damp places in well-treed gardens. ![]()
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