this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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What is this thing?

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It was in a small lake in Washington, and I noticed it as I was about to drive home.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah that's a larval state candiru. Here's a little video that talks about them.

https://youtu.be/K7SLWF_by-E

I used to see those all the time when I was making all of this up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a rapper name

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you search "baby leeches" a forum question comes up, and the folks there identify something that looks exactly like this is a Planaria flatworm. https://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/40506-anyone-know-what-these-are/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Planaria have triangular heads like in the link you posted, I agree with the others that OP's PIC is a leach.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like it 🙁. If you can bear to open this post again could you edit the title to add [SOLVED]? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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