Hirudinidae sp. (family)

1 A Striped Leech at Acton, ACT

Hirudinidae sp. (family) at Acton, ACT - 17 Dec 2020
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Hirudinidae sp. (family) 18 Dec 2020 trevorpreston
Hirudinidae sp. (family) 17 Dec 2020 Roger

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trevorpreston wrote:
   18 Dec 2020
Was this leech terrestrial or aquatic? (Looks terrestrial in the photo).
Hopefully in the future I can acquire a key and more information to identify leeches down to genus or species, but at the moment family is the best we can do.
Thanks for the sighting.
Roger wrote:
   18 Dec 2020
It was terrestrial, it was on the timber balustrade at the ANBG, so presume it had made it's way up from the rain-forest creek below.

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