Unidentified Leech at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Hirudinea sp. (Class) | 23 Apr 2024 | trevorpreston | ||
| Hirudinea sp. (Class) | 22 Apr 2024 | turb | ||
| Unverified | 22 Apr 2024 | clarehoneydove |
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User's notes
Flatworm??? Leech?? Peeking up from between rocks in creek and waving back and forth. At times looked flat underneath.
2 comments
turb
wrote:
22 Apr 2024
The specimen appears to have annuli, and four dark dorsal stripes, the median pair of which are close and separated by a fine pale line. I am unable to determine details of the number of eyes and so on from the photo. A freshwater leech. Swimming leeches are generally flattened, as you noted.
Location information
- Places Bungendore, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- clarehoneydove Recorded by
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Collections
clarehoneydove Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Hirudinea sp. (Class) Leeches (Hirudinea) Segmented Worms (Annelida) Other Invertebrates
Species information
- Hirudinea sp. (Class) Scientific name
- Unidentified Leech Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1594.02m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Glossiphoniidae sp.
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes