Species Profile
Hirudo
Medicinal leech
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumAnnelida
ClassHirudinea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Hirudo lives in freshwater habitats.
Feeds on vertebrate blood.
Important in medical science.
Size & Structure
01
Flattened body
02
Two suckers
03
Dark striped colour
04
Soft body
Hirudo — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate (reduced)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Externally absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Ladder-like
- Excretory organ
- Nephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Cutaneous
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Ectoparasite
Predator-prey dynamics
Freshwater ecosystem
Economic Importance
Medical leech therapy
Anticoagulant research
Surgical importance