The new species, named Amaga pseudobama, has already spread across Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
A new species of flatworm has been found invading the U.S., having already spread across Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.The species, named Amaga pseudobama, was discovered in North Carolina in 2020, according to a new paper in the journal PeerJ.The worm, which is native to South America and invasive to the U.S., was named because of its similarity to another invasive flatworm named Obama nungara.
'We reinvestigated specimens collected in Florida in 2015 and found that they also belong to this species. Citizen science observations suggest its presence in other states. Therefore, it is likely that A. pseudobama has already invaded a part of south-east USA and that the invasion took place more than ten years ago.'This places A. pseudobama among the ranks of other invasive flatworm species in the U.S., including hammerhead flatworms and New Guinea flatworms.
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