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New Guinea flatworm

Platydemus manokwari Beauchamp, 1962

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The new guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari) is a species in the family Geoplanidae, order Tricladida.

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Quick facts about the new guinea flatworm

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the new guinea flatworm live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the new guinea flatworm as introduced in 13 countries, and flagged as invasive in 8 of them.

  1. Japaninvasive
  2. New Caledoniainvasive
  3. Palauinvasive
  4. Samoainvasive
  5. Solomon Islandsinvasive
  6. Tongainvasive
  7. Vanuatuinvasive
  8. Wallis & Futunainvasive
  9. France
  10. Maldives
  11. Nepal
  12. United Kingdom
  13. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the new guinea flatworm endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the new guinea flatworm classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumPlatyhelminthes
  3. orderTricladida
  4. familyGeoplanidae
  5. genusPlatydemus
  6. SpeciesPlatydemus manokwari Beauchamp, 1962
Other names and names in other languages (11)
  • New Guinean flatwormEnglish
  • Platydemus manokwari (New Guinea flatworm)English
  • Gusano gigante cabeza de martilloSpanish
  • Plathelminthe de Nouvelle-GuinéeFrench
  • ニューギニアヤリガタリクウズムシJapanese
  • Nieuw-Guinese landplatwormDutch
  • Planária-da-Nova-GuinéPortuguese
  • vitstrimmig landplanarieSwedish
  • หนอนตัวแบนนิวกินีThai
  • 扁蟲 (新畿內亞扁蟲)Chinese
  • Nieuw-Guineese landplatwormDutch

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the new guinea flatworm

Other species in the same genus Platydemus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the new guinea flatworm an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the new guinea flatworm as invasive in 8 countries, including Japan, New Caledonia, Palau, Samoa and Solomon Islands. It lists it as introduced in 13 in all.

What kind of animal is the new guinea flatworm?

The new guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari) belongs to the family Geoplanidae in the order Tricladida.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). New Guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/new-guinea-flatworm

MLA

“New Guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/new-guinea-flatworm.

BibTeX
@misc{new_guinea_flatworm_2026,
  title = {New Guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/new-guinea-flatworm},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}