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mutant earthworm?

  • 27-01-2013 1:19pm
    #1
    bloons
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    I discovered an unusual earthworm with what looks like sensory tentacles, I searched online and nothing, what do you think?


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Looks like they are on the rear end.

    sometimes salamanders don't regenerate lost limbs properly and a second bud appears so something similar I'd guess


  • #3
    bloons
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭bloons


    its tentacles were positioned at the front, it traveled kinda using them, one tentacle seemed weaker and not as functional as the other


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The white band is a clitellum and that's near the head.


  • #5
    bloons
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭bloons


    So thats its rear end, or its suppose to be, mad, it travels backwards, that's different. Its tentacles were just like a slugs tentacles, fully retractable and all. I sent an email to the EPA earlier today. Could you suggest anywhere else to get help with this.


  • #6
    flanna01
    Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭flanna01


    It's like a lanky homeless snail..... The recession has hit everybody!


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  • #7
    Ronnie Beck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Ronnie Beck


    bloons wrote: »
    So thats its rear end, or its suppose to be, mad, it travels backwards, that's different. Its tentacles were just like a slugs tentacles, fully retractable and all. I sent an email to the EPA earlier today. Could you suggest anywhere else to get help with this.

    http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/

    These would be the best crowd to contact for matters such as this. I read on the site before that there is a few hundred native species of earthworm. Yours looks like a mutation to me.


  • #8
    bloons
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭bloons


    I sent an email to the national biodiversity gang, thats great, thanks all for the help and replies.


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