Bipaliines, which have their origin in warm parts of Asia, are invasive species, now widespread worldwide. Species of the genera Bipalium and Diversibipalium, or bipaliines, are giants among land planarians (family Geoplanidae), reaching length of 1 m they are also easily distinguished from other land flatworms by the characteristic hammer shape of their head. Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories. Cite this article Justine J, Winsor L, Gey D, Gros P, Thévenot J. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
Licence This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. 5 UMS Patrinat, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France DOI 10.7717/peerj.4672 Published Accepted Received Academic Editor Marta Riutort Subject Areas Agricultural Science, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Taxonomy, Zoology Keywords Platyhelminthes, Barcoding, France, Land planarian, Overseas French territories, Citizen science, Invasive alien species Copyright © 2018 Justine et al.
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