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European medicinal leech

Hirudo medicinalis

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Field Notes

Description:

•They are hermaphrodites.
•They feed on vertebrate blood and invertebrate hemolymph.
•They have been historically used in medicine to remove blood from patients.

Habitat:

Muddy freshwater pools and ditches with plantiful weed growth in temperate climates
-I saw this leech in Hildesheim(Germany)

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PublishedJanuary 30, 2016

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