New Zealand Invertebrates

DSC_0426 Ectocommensal flatworm (Temnohaswellia novaezealandiae) Temnocephalid flatworms are distinguished by short, fat bodies and heads that branch into five or more blunt 'fingers', as can be seen here, perched on the on the eye of the endemic Northern freshwater crayfish or koura, (Paranephrops planifrons). Trent Stream, Denniston Plateau *

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DSC_0426 Ectocommensal flatworm (Temnohaswellia novaezealandiae) Temnocephalid flatworms are distinguished by short, fat bodies and heads that branch into five or more blunt 'fingers', as can be seen here, perched on the on the eye of the endemic Northern freshwater crayfish or koura, (Paranephrops planifrons). Trent Stream, Denniston Plateau *

Temnocephala flatworm DSC 0426 commensal ectocommensal flatworms Temnohaswellia temnocephalid novaezealandiae northern freshwater crayfish koura Paranephrops zealandicus planifrons denniston plateau trent stream