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  2. Hirudo verbana - Wikipedia

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    Hirudo verbana feeds on blood (hematophagy). During a blood meal, a leech rhythmically contracts its muscles to draw blood from a host animal into the crop for storage. It can consume over five times its own weight in blood in one feeding. Once satiated, a leech detaches from its host.

  3. Leech - Wikipedia

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    Blood-sucking leeches use their anterior suckers to connect to hosts for feeding. Once attached, they use a combination of mucus and suction to stay in place while they inject hirudin into the hosts' blood. In general, blood-feeding leeches are non host-specific, and do little harm to their host, dropping off after consuming a blood meal. Some ...

  4. Haementeria ghilianii - Wikipedia

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    [2] [5] Blood is moved into the digestive system through a series of undulation movements, and leeches can go months without feeding. [4] [5] Observed host species include humans, rabbits, and cows. [2] [5] Claims from 1899 state that leeches could aggregate to the point of killing birds and cattle. [4]

  5. Rare blood-sucking leech bred at London Zoo - AOL

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    A rare breed of blood-sucking leech is being bred at London Zoo in a bid to save the UK’s largest native leech species from extinction. The medicinal leech was once widespread in Britain, but ...

  6. Hirudo medicinalis - Wikipedia

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    The price of leeches varied between one penny and threepence halfpenny each. In 1832 leeches accounted for 4.4% of the total hospital expenditure. The hospital maintained an aquarium for leeches until the 1930s. [15] The use of leeches began to become less widespread towards the end of the 19th century. [5]

  7. Glossiphoniidae - Wikipedia

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    Glossiphoniidae are a family of freshwater proboscis-bearing leeches.These leeches are generally flattened, and have a poorly defined anterior sucker.Most suck the blood of freshwater vertebrates like amphibians, crocodilians and aquatic turtles, but some feed on invertebrates like oligochaetes and freshwater snails instead.

  8. Hematophagy - Wikipedia

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    Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words αἷμα haima "blood" and φαγεῖν phagein "to eat"). Since blood is a fluid tissue rich in nutritious proteins and lipids that can be taken without great effort, hematophagy is a preferred form of ...

  9. Haemadipsidae - Wikipedia

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    Well-known Haemadipsidae are for example the Indian Leech (Haemadipsa sylvestris) and the yamabiru or Japanese Mountain Leech (Haemadipsa zeylanica). Members of the family feed on blood, except Idiobdella which has adapted to eat small snails. [1] The other notable group of jawed blood-sucking leeches are the aquatic Hirudinidae.