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English: This video is of a leech climbing the external face of the door of the public toilet at Lake Leake in Tasmania. The video was taken on a Nokia 6120 classic mobile phone and converted from MP4 format to OGG format using FFmpeg.
Commonly known as jawed land leeches, these annelids are known from subtropical and tropical regions around the Indian and Pacific Ocean. [1] Well-known Haemadipsidae are for example the Indian Leech ( Haemadipsa sylvestris ) and the yamabiru or Japanese Mountain Leech ( Haemadipsa zeylanica ).
Leech secretions contain several bioactive substances with anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant and antimicrobial effects. [69] One active component of leech saliva is a ...
Tarkine land tenure. The Tarkine is gazetted by the Tasmanian government as unbounded locality in north-west Tasmania [1] The generally accepted definition is the area between the Arthur River in the North, the Pieman River in the south, the ocean to the west and the Murchison Highway in the east.
Haemadipsa picta (common names: tiger leech, or less commonly, stinging land leech) is a large (up to 33 mm long) terrestrial leech found in Borneo, Indochina, and Taiwan. [1] [2] It was described by John Percy Moore based on specimens collected from Sarawak, Borneo. [3] It preys primarily on medium- to large-sized mammals, including humans. [2]
Haementeria ghilianii is a species of leech in the Glossiphoniidae family, comprising freshwater proboscis-bearing leeches. Colloquially, they are known as the Amazon giant leech . Following its initial description in 1849, additional details were provided based on specimens from French Guiana in 1899, after which the species was largely ...
The Tasmanian nativehen (Tribonyx mortierii) (palawa kani: piyura) [2] (alternative spellings: Tasmanian native-hen or Tasmanian native hen) is a flightless rail and one of twelve species of birds endemic to Australia’s island state of Tasmania.
This is a list of mammals of Tasmania: Order: Monotremata (monotremes) Platypus Short-beaked echidna. Family: Ornithorhynchidae. Genus: Ornithorhynchus.