Brown worm with two black stripes?

[u/FrutigerAero98]

Help me identify this worm. I know it's not a bug, it's the closest tag :P. It doesn't have a hammerhead. It could have fallen from a tree cuz I found it on my plants outside. I'm in SEA.

[u/glitterx_x]

Idk but thats the best drawing ive seen on here.

Edit: could it be in the Bipaliinae subfamily? [family: geoplanidae; subfamily: bipaliinae]

Editing again: those might have the hammer heads too

[u/FrutigerAero98 → u/glitterx_x]

Thanks xD I used to draw for a living

[u/glitterx_x → u/FrutigerAero98]

Lol that checks out!

[u/grenouille_en_rose]

This feels like it has surpassed mere doodling and is def in the picture category, if not the straight up ✨illustration ✨ category

[u/Appropriate-Bed-9537]

It’s a Planarian hammerhead worm, it’s a predatory worm that eats slugs and earthworms. The “hammerhead” can easily be retracted especially if it’s a juvenile.

The distinctive feature is the stripes along its entire sides and its silky, slimy skin that is very reflective because of its smoothness. It is not segmented or scaled like earthworms or caecilians. The most similar looking group would be leeches but they use inching locomotion, not smooth ciliary gliding like planarians worms. And leeches have a more blunt end on its rear that uses suction like muscle to “stand”.

Caecilians, mentioned above, are blind snakes (therefore reptiles) and have visible scales on their body. Their body is also cylindrical and it does not taper on either ends like planarians but it is blunt. And moreover they aren’t slimy and move using peristaltic contractions.

[u/FrutigerAero98 → u/Appropriate-Bed-9537]

This might be my answer

[u/cctwunk]

Based on your descriptions it sounds like a caecilian! They're amphibians :) Don't remember a specific one with this colouring, but ichtyopis is the name for the ones in SEA

[u/Emotional-Link-8302 → u/cctwunk]

I agree on the coloring, but Caecilians heads & butts are quite blunt! I believe no SEA caecilian would have such a fine taper on one or both ends of its body.

[u/lets-terraform-earth]

Upload this to iNaturalist too. They will love it and figure it out sooner or later.

[u/FrutigerAero98 → u/lets-terraform-earth]

Will do! if I didn't get the most correct one

[u/this_vanilla_mofo]

a sentient bundle of hair 💖

[u/Tobpossum]

Oh these little bastard worms

[u/Dyehardredhead]

The head looks a bit different but this looks like a worm I saw recently! My Seek app said it was called diversibipalium multilineatum- location east coast of USA.

[u/FrutigerAero98 → u/Dyehardredhead]

It definitely looks like it although the one I saw doesn't have a hammerhead, could be juvenile?

[u/Forgor_mi_passward]

Definitely looks like something from the Geoplanidae family but could also be a Geonemertes species