Glossiphonia complanata
A broad and flat leech (to 27 mm), usually brownish in colour patterned with rows of greenish spots.
Preferring running streams, especially those with a high calcium content. It attaches to the underside of stones.
All year round.
It is armed with a proboscis which it inserts into the soft parts of invertebrates such as snails, sucking out their body fluids. The adults brood their young.
Poorly recorded but thought to be quite common in Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Grace Dieu
15 April 2010
Steve Woodward
Grace Dieu
15 April 2010
Uta Hamzaoui
Washrook
23 May 2020
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Worms
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Rhynchobdellida
- Family:
- Glossiphoniidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 21/09/2001 (D. Voce)
- Last record:
- 04/01/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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