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مجلة بغداد للعلوم, 2019 In this study, a total of 209 individuals of leeches were collected from Al-Hindyia River / Babil Province. 116 individuals were identified as Erpobdella octaculata (Linnaeus, 1758), 50 individuals as Erpobdella punctata (Leidy,1870) and 43 individuals ...
AL-Ameen et al.
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Leeches as Sensor-bioindicators of River Contamination by PCBs
Sensors, 2009 The aim of the study was to evaluate the use of leeches of the genus Erpobdella as a means of assessing polychlorinated biphenyl contamination of watercourses. The River Skalice, heavily contaminated with PCBs, was selected as a model.
Gorzyslaw Poleszczuk +11 more
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Predators and resources influence phosphorus transfer along an invertebrate food web through changes in prey behaviour. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Predators play a fundamental role in prey trophic behaviour, with indirect consequences for species coexistence and ecosystem functioning. Resource quality and availability also influence prey trophic behaviour, with potential effects on predator-prey ...
Edoardo Calizza +2 more
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Zoologica Scripta, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 614-640, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Clitellata is a major clade of Annelida comprising nearly all freshwater and terrestrial annelids as well as several marine species. We investigated clitellate phylogenetic relationships using transcriptomes sampled from 74 taxa (64 clitellates and 10 polychaetes), including multiple representatives of nearly all major clitellate higher taxa ...
Christer Erséus +7 more
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International Review of Hydrobiology, Volume 105, Issue 3-4, Page 74-84, June 2020., 2020 Abstract Anthropogenic flow intermittency is considered a severe disturbance for benthic macroinvertebrates with largely unknown impacts on the organization of benthic communities and their food webs. We analysed the community composition (as taxonomic composition and relative abundance of taxa) and food webs of the macroinvertebrates inhabiting the ...
Ignacio Peralta‐Maraver +3 more
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Developmentally regulated multisensory integration for prey localization in the medicinal leech [PDF]
, 2011 Medicinal leeches, like many aquatic animals, use water disturbances to localize their prey, so they need to be able to determine if a wave disturbance is created by prey or by another source.
Cienfuegos, Javier +2 more
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An Illustrated Checklist of Leech Species from Lake Baikal (Eastern Siberia, Russia)
Dataset Papers in Science, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 New data on Lake Baikal fauna of Hirudinida (Annelida, Clitellata) are presented. The species composition of Baikal leeches extends to 20 species belonging to two orders, four families, and 12 genera. An updated checklist includes information on five species recorded in Eastern Siberia for the first time.
Irina Kaygorodova +2 more
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, 2015 Erpobdella octoculata Linnaeus, 1758 (Hirudinea: Arhynchobdellida: Erpobdellidae) is a very common and morphologically variable macrophagous predators of aquatic invertebrates.
Yun-Ling Xu, Ling Xiao, J. Nie
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First Records of Potamic Leech Fauna of Eastern Siberia, Russia
Dataset Papers in Science, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 We studied the fauna of leech and leech‐like species inhabiting main water streams of Eastern Siberia and its tributaries, which are attributed to Lake Baikal basin and Lena River basin. Here we present their list for the first time. This study was mainly aimed for free‐living parasitic and carnivorous leeches whereas piscine parasites were not ...
Irina A. Kaygorodova +5 more
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Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinida) of Northern Arkansas [PDF]
, 2006 Twenty-one lotic and lentic environments throughout central and northern Arkansas were surveyed for the presence of leeches during June 2004 and April, July - October 2005.
Daniels, Bruce A. +5 more
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