Hammerhead worms

“This is a terrestrial predatory planaria, they are also called hammerhead worms,” said an employee of the Federal Scientific Center for Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

🪱 “This is another endemic group of terrestrial invertebrates, like the Orobdella leeches. This is not only a new species, but also a genus. Similar finds of terrestrial planarians on Russky Island were known before,”