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Hirudo medicinalis
Looking for crawdads with the kids and found this fascinating guy. It was clinging to the underside of a rock in the edge of a creek. Glad it was on the rock and not one of us! I'm not 100% sure about the species. It has a sucker part on each end and can move along like a slug or like an inchworm. About an 1.5 inches when its scrunched up, but it can stretch itself out to about 5 inches long when it is reaching for another surface to climb on.
Spotted on Jun 15, 2014
Submitted on Jun 16, 2014
2 Comments
Thank you Machi!
Looks like a leech http://aquascape.net/lake-leeches/