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parasite ID - fluke or leech

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Posted by: Kelly_Haller at Sun Jan 16 14:46:30 2011  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kelly_Haller ]  
   

Small leeches can be visually differentiated from flukes by their external body structure. Leeches are a type of annelid and therefore their bodies are composed of fine segments or small concentric rings like an earthworm. Flukes have a basically a completely smooth external layer with no fine segment structure.



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