Diversibipalium multilineatum

{{Short description|Species of flatworm}}

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| image = Diversibipalium multilineatum from Italy - Fig 1 b - Head.png

| image_caption = Diversibipalium multilineatum, head

| taxon = Diversibipalium multilineatum

| authority = (Makino & Shirasawa, 1983)

| synonyms = * Bipalium multilineatum Makino & Shirasawa, 1983

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Diversibipalium multilineatum is a species of large predatory land flatworm.

The species is native to Japan.

Makino N, Shirasawa Y (1983). Morphological and ecological comparison with two new species of elongated-slender land planarians having several stripes and their new scientific names. Bulletin of Tokyo Medical College 9: 69-83 [In Japanese, English summary]

{{cite journal|last1=Makino|first1=Naoya|last2=Shirasawa|first2=Yasuko|title=Biology of long slender land planarians (Turbellaria) in Tokyo and environs|journal=Hydrobiologia|volume=132|issue=1|year=1986|pages=229–232|issn=0018-8158|doi=10.1007/BF00046253}}

It has been recorded in 2016 for the first time outside Asia, from Bologna, Italy (from a finding in September 2014), and in several localities in France.{{cite journal|last1=Mazza|first1=Giuseppe|last2=Menchetti|first2=Mattia|last3=Sluys|first3=Ronald|last4=Solà|first4=Eduard|last5=Riutort|first5=Marta|last6=Tricarico|first6=Elena|last7=Justine|first7=Jean-Lou|last8=Cavigioli|first8=Luca|last9=Mori|first9=Emiliano|title=First report of the land planarian Diversibipalium multilineatum (Makino & Shirasawa, 1983) (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) in Europe|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4067|issue=5|year=2016|pages=577–580|issn=1175-5334|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4067.5.4|pmid=27395897|doi-access=free|hdl=11365/1062552|hdl-access=free}} {{open access}}{{cite journal|last1=Justine|first1=Jean-Lou|last2=Winsor|first2=Leigh|last3=Gey|first3=Delphine|last4=Gros|first4=Pierre|last5=Thévenot|first5=Jessica|title=Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories|journal=PeerJ|volume=6|year=2018|pages=e4672|issn=2167-8359|doi=10.7717/peerj.4672|pmid=29844951|pmc=5969052 |doi-access=free }} {{open access}} More records in 2021 confirmed its presence in various regions of Italy.{{cite journal | last1=Mori | first1=Emiliano | last2=Magoga | first2=Giulia | last3=Panella | first3=Marta | last4=Montagna | first4=Matteo | last5=Winsor | first5=Leigh | last6=Justine | first6=Jean-Lou | last7=Menchetti | first7=Mattia | last8=Schifani | first8=Enrico | last9=Melone | first9=Beatrice | last10=Mazza | first10=Giuseppe | title=Discovering the Pandora's box: the invasion of alien flatworms in Italy | journal=Biological Invasions| date=2021-09-26 | volume=24 | pages=205–216 | issn=1387-3547 | doi=10.1007/s10530-021-02638-w }} It is thus an alien species to Europe.

File:Diversibipalium multilineatum from Italy - Fig 1 a - Body.png

Figure 10 (PeerJ 4672) - Diversibipalium multilineatum.png|Diversibipalium multilineatum, body

Figure 11 (PeerJ 4672) - Diversibipalium multilineatum.png|Diversibipalium multilineatum, head

Figure 12 (PeerJ 4672) - Diversibipalium multilineatum.png|Diversibipalium multilineatum, head

Figure 13 (PeerJ 4672) - Diversibipalium multilineatum.png|Diversibipalium multilineatum, head

Figure 14 (PeerJ 4672) - Diversibipalium multilineatum+ asterisk.png|Diversibipalium multilineatum, body, ventral view