These terrestrial species are land planarians and they make up the Geoplanidae family. There are around 15,000 described flatworm species, and less than a thousand are terrestrial species.
However, since the reader found the worm in his backyard, it is evidently a comparatively rare terrestrial flatworm. We can’t really discern the creature’s body shape from the picture, but assuming it is flat, then it seems that our reader found a species that belongs to the phylum Platyhelminthes, which appropriately are known as “flatworms.” The reader was wondering exactly what worm species he found, but that level of detail could be hard to determine without extensive and specialized research.
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