Hirudinea, Freshwater Leech

Many Freshwater Leeches eat whole invertebrates, but most suck blood from frogs, turtles, water birds and other aquatic animals. While each species has a preferred host, most will also feed on others. Some will attach to, and feed on, humans. They are all hermaphrodites and produce cocoons from which the young emerge. The suckers at either end of the leech are used for locomotion; the leech

Placobdelloides sirikanchanae sp. nov., a new species of glossiphoniid leech and a parasite of turtles from lower southern Thailand (Hirudinea, Rhynchobdellida)

Leeches - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

The present state of the leech fauna (Annelida: Hirudinea) in Lithuania

Freshwater Leech - Phylum Annelida, Class Clitellata, Subclass Hirudinea - by Christine Young - JungleDragon

The Anatomy and Ecology of Medicinal Leeches

The main causes of pollution in rivers are: - ppt video online download

Hirudinea species hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

PDF] Cocoon deposition and cluster formation in populations of the leech Hirudo verbana ( Hirudinea : Hirudinidae )

True Leeches (Infraclass Euhirudinea) · iNaturalist