Annelida: Leech Predation and Digestion
Leech Predation and Digestion
Many leeches have a proboscis used for swallowing the prey or for sucking its fluids; others have jaws for biting. Many parasitic leeches are able to parasitize a wide variety of hosts. Most of the marine and some of the freshwater leeches are fish parasites. The medicinal leech,
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Leech Reproduction
- Leech Predation and Digestion
- Leech Anatomy
- Class Hirudinea
- Oligochaete Reproduction
- Oligochaete Circulation and Respiration
- Oligochaete Digestion
- Oligochaete Anatomy
- Class Oligochaeta
- Archiannelida and Myzostomaria
- Polychaete Reproduction
- Polychaete Anatomy
- Sedentary Polychaetes
- Errant Polychaetes
- Class Polychaeta
- Reproduction
- The Nervous System
- Respiration
- Circulation
- Digestion
- The Body Wall
- Segmented Bodies
- Bibliography
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