---
title: "Brown leech"
description: "Haemadipsa zeylanica — Other animals. No summary available."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/brown-leech
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brown leech

> Haemadipsa zeylanica — Other animals. No summary available.

- Scientific name: *Haemadipsa zeylanica*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1096
- Wikidata: [Q21233347](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21233347)
- iNaturalist taxon: [333281](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/333281)

## Names

- en: Brown leech

## Countries with the most observations

LK (200), IN (87), JP (65), NP (13), MY (12), TH (4), VN (3)

## Photo

![Brown leech](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-leech/medium.jpg)

Photo: Scott Loarie · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/407818

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-leech?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).