Common Name: European medicinal leech
General distribution: Eurasian
Newfoundland: Literature: Blanchard (1896) reports two specimens in the Paris Musée Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle from Newfoundland, location and date missing, and suggests that this species was introduced intentionally by man. No known resident population has been found since 1896 (Davies 1973, Madill 1985). The specimens reside in vial 149 at the Paris Musée Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle.