Spotting

Description:

small leech like

Habitat:

fresh water lake, Acadia.National Park. Jordan Lake

1 Species ID Suggestions

key_man 11 years ago

New England Medicinal Leech

Macrobdella sestertia http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/species_info/nhfacts/macrobdella_sestertia.pdf

3 Comments

Scott Frazier 11 years ago

leech or flatworm?

Scott Frazier 11 years ago

Moved to "Other" where organisms that don't have their own PN category go, like this leech, a kind of segmented worm. Other "others" include snails and clams, jellyfish and corals, squid and octopus...

Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

I think category must be others.
This is not surely Reptile..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech

Spotted by
TimMcbride

Maine, USA

Spotted on May 20, 2012
Submitted on May 24, 2012