• It is the Indian Cattle Leach

• Ectoparasite on Fishes, Cattle, and Man.

• It is a Sanguivorous/Haemophagus (Blood feeding) animal.

• Dorsoventrally flattened, Soft and body surface is moist and slimy due to the mucus secretion.

• Body is divided into 33 Metameres.

• Head Bears anterior suckers on the ventral side and 5 pairs of Ocelli on the dorsal side.

• Clitellum is absent.

• Posterior sucker is formed of 7 segments.

• Leech is a Hermaphrodite.

• Excretory Organs are Nephridia.