• Bipalium is a large terrestrial triclad inhabiting the humid soil on the floor of the tropical jungles.

• It has cosmopolitan distribution chiefly found in green houses and outdoor regions in Florida, Louisiana and California. It is also found in temperate and tropical countries.

• It is one of the largest land planarians measuring 20 to 50 cm in length.

• Animal consists of an expanded lunate head and cylindrical long body.

• Numerous eyes are present on the margin of the head and sides of the twisted body.

• The planaria has stripes over the dorsal surface also and a creeping sole on the ventral surface.

• Reproduction generally asexual. It never becomes sexual in temperate climate and it propagates by fragmentation.

• Bipalium adventium breeds sexually