Most bivalves use their gills to filter small food particles, which are then directed toward their mouths. Cephalopods have beaklike jaws for biting and crushing their prey, and unlike members of the other classes, tend to be fast-moving carnivores. Most mollusks have males and females, while garden snails are hermaphroditic. Annelids are segmented, both inside and out. Earthworms are hermaphroditic and a pair of worms fertilize each other.
Annelids have both longitudinal and circular muscles, so better control over their movement.
Many leeches suck blood. Some have sharp jaws to slit their host's skin, while others secrete an enzyme to digest a hole in the victim's skin. For years, people thought disease was caused by too much blood, so the Medicinal Leech Hirudo medicinalis was used to suck some out. Typically a medicinal leech, once attached, may suck for a couple hours, perhaps ingesting between one to two ounces of blood, many times its own body weight. When someone severs a finger which must be surgically reattached, since all the capillaries are dysfunctional, blood flowing into the finger via the reconstructed arteries has nowhere to go but into the tissue.