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Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History MuseumA new freshwater malacophagous leech belonging to the Glossiphoniidae Vaillant, 1890 family was found in a spring in the Ferghana Valley. In this study, we describe the morphological characteristics and DNA barcoding gene of a new leech, Glossiphonia ...
Khayrulla Solijonov +3 more
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Settlement preferences of leeches (Clitellata: Hirudinida) for different artificial substrates [PDF]
Hydrobiologia, 2015 We examined the settlement preferences of leeches by analysing colonization patterns on artificial substrates. The intention was to check whether the type of material, texture and size of artificial substrates would influence the abundance of leeches.
Adamiak-Brud, Żaneta +3 more
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ZooKeys, 2012 A new sexannulate species of the genus Orobdella Oka, 1895, Orobdella mononoke sp. n., is described on the basis of five specimens collected from Yakushima Island, Japan. Orobdella mononoke sp. n.
Takafumi Nakano
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ZooKeys, 2011 Mimobdella japonica Blanchard, 1897, the type species of the genus Mimobdella, is redescribed based on the holotype. This species is characterized by the following characteristics: mid-body somites novem-annulate, two post-anal annuli, male gonopore in ...
Takafumi Nakano
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Species DiversityLeeches of the predatory genus Whitmania Blanchard, 1888 were collected from Yonaguni Island in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and are identified as W. laevis (Baird, 1869). This represents the first record of this species from the Ryukyu Islands.
Takafumi Nakano +3 more
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ZooKeys, 2017 A new leech species Helobdella blinni sp. n., is described from Montezuma Well, an isolated travertine spring mound located in central Arizona, USA. In its native habitat, H. blinni had been previously identified as Helobdella stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758),
Rebecca K. Beresic-Perrins +5 more
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HABITAT PREFERENCES AND VENTRAL COLOR VARIABILITY OF HIRUDO MEDICINALIS (CLITELLATA: HIRUDINIDA)
Ecologica Montenegrina, 2015 This study deals with the habitat preferences of medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 in the Czech Republic, in a highly agriculturally used and fragmented landscape, and provides the detailed information about the ventral coloration of this species. The study was conducted in 2010–2011 at 11 out of total 15 localities of H. medicinalis in
Glombová, Jana, Schenková, Jana
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Species DiversityTroglodontobdella nom. nov. is herein proposed as a replacement name for the salifid leech genus Troglobdella Liu and Nakano in Liu, Li, Wu, Lin, Li, Nakano, and Liu, 2025, because the latter genus-group name is preoccupied by the acariform genus ...
Zichao Liu, Takafumi Nakano
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ZoodiversityMorphological parameters were measured on a population of the Mediterranean pond turtle Mauremys leprosa (Schweigger, 1812) in Majen Belahriti pond in the region of Guelma (North-east of Algeria).
K. Ramdani +5 more
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Lost and found – Fritz Müller´s type material of Glossiphonia verrucata (Fr. Müller, 1844) (Hirudinida, Glossiphoniidae) with notes on the leech fauna of lake Tegel in Berlin (Germany) [PDF]
Evolutionary Systematics, 2018 In 1844, the famous German biologist Fritz Müller published his dissertation about the leech fauna of lakes in Berlin. This study not only addressed the occurrence of leeches in the different lakes, but also contains the description of a new species ...
Uwe Jueg, Peter Michalik
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