Fauna Europaea: Annelida – Hirudinea, incl. Acanthobdellea and Branchiobdellea [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2014 Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus ...
Alessandro Minelli +2 more
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The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Torix tukubana (Annelida: Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae). [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2023 Torix tukubana is a poorly understood proboscidate leech species, generally an ectoparasite on amphibian species. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of T.
Zhu X, Zhao Y, Wei H, Hu N, Hu Q, Li Y.
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New records of Piscicola geometra (Linnaeus 1758) (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) in Ebro River Basin (N Spain). [PDF]
Munibe Ciencias Naturales, 2014 This note represents a contribution to the knowledge of the presence of the fish leech Piscicola geometra (Linnaeus 1758) (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) in the Ebro River Basin. This species was collected in two rivers in the Ebro River Basin.
Oscoz, J., Tomás, P., Durán, C.
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Predictive Distribution Modeling of the Medicinal Leech <i>Hirudo verbana</i> Carena, 1820 (Hirudinea, Hirudinidae) in Sicily: Implications for Conservation. [PDF]
Ecol EvolA predictive distribution model for Hirudo verbana in Sicily was developed using 1980–2024 occurrence data and environmental variables. The species is associated with densely vegetated, high‐elevation lentic habitats and avoids human‐disturbed areas.
Liuzzo M, Utevsky S, Marrone F.
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Scrotal Hirudiniasis: The Mysterious Migration of a Leech Into the Scrotum: A Case Report. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Hirudiniasis, or leech infestation, is a rare parasitic condition typically involving external skin or mucosal surfaces. We report a case of scrotal hirudiniasis, an 11 cm long leech discovered within the scrotal sac of a 15‐year‐old male.
Chakroborty P, Quadir MA.
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FIGURE 1 in The present state of the leech fauna (Annelida: Hirudinea) in Lithuania
, 2022 FIGURE 1. Sampling stations of freshwater leeches in Lithuania.Published as part of Šatkauskienė, Ingrida & Rutkauskaitė-Sucilienė, Jurgita, 2022, The present state of the leech fauna (Annelida: Hirudinea) in Lithuania, pp.
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Diversity of macrobenthos in lowland streams: ecological determinants and taxonomic specificity
Journal of Limnology, 2010 The present study contains the results of an investigation of the relationships between the environmental variables and the taxonomic diversity of common and important groups of benthic macrofauna: Chironomidae, Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Hirudinea and ...
Paweł KOPERSKI
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, 2022 This dataset contains supplementary data for the article "Hidden shelter-like associations of minute Alboglossiphonia leeches (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae) with sedentary animals and molluscs" as follows: Table S1.
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, 2022 For thousands of years, healers used bloodfeeding leeches to treat a variety of ailments from lethargy to plague. Although phlebotomy is no longer as ubiquitous as it once was, we remain fascinated by leeches and their vampiric tendencies.Together with ...
de Carle, Danielle Bozena
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The present state of the leech fauna (Annelida: Hirudinea) in Lithuania
, 2022 Šatkauskienė, Ingrida, Rutkauskaitė-Sucilienė, Jurgita (2022): The present state of the leech fauna (Annelida: Hirudinea) in Lithuania. Zootaxa 5115 (1): 47-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.1.
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