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Seasonal Activity of the Ozark Highlands Leech, Macrobdella diplotertia, (Annelida: Hirudinea) in North-central Arkansas [PDF]

, 2010
The Ozark Highlands Leech, Macrobdella diplotertia, occurs intermittently throughout Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri. Limited natural history of this species is known. Herein, we report a new county occurrence for this leech from a cattle pond in southern
Connior, M., Trauth, Stanley E.
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iDNA from terrestrial haematophagous leeches as a wildlife surveying and monitoring tool - prospects, pitfalls and avenues to be developed [PDF]

, 2015
Invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) from terrestrial haematophagous leeches has recently been proposed as a powerful non-invasive tool with which to detect vertebrate species and thus to survey their populations.
Calvignac-Spencer, Sebastien, Gilbert, M. Thomas. P., Schnell, Ida Baerholm, Siddall, Mark E., Sollmann, Rahel, Wilting, Andreas, Yu, Douglas W.   +6 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., Klemm, Donald J., Moser, William E., Richardson, Dennis J., Trauth, Stanley E., Wheeler, Benjamin A.   +5 more
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Drug discovery prospect from untapped species: Indications from approved natural product drugs [PDF]

, 2012
10.1371/journal.pone.0039782PLoS ...
AL Harvey, B Wilkinson, BJ Druker, C Gambacorti-Passerini, CB Pullen, Chu Qin, Chun Yan Tan, Cun Long Zhang, DG Kingston, DJ Newman, EW Sayers, F Zhu, FE Koehn, Feng Zhu, GW Bemis, H Nakano, J Berdy, J Clardy, J Piel, J Vesely, JG Dann, JT Hunt, JW Li, K Adachi, Lin Tao, Luis Eduardo M. Quintas, M Tulp, M Tulp, ME Wall, MG Watve, MS Rappe, NA Roberts, NB Lydon, P Furet, PM Traxler, RH Baltz, RK Ralph, S Bergmann, SC Wenzel, SJ Projan, TJ McQuade, V Schroeckh, Xiao Hua Ma, Xin Liu, YM Chiang, Yu Yang Jiang, Yu Zong Chen, Zhe Shi   +47 more
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An Investigation into the Diversity of Leeches (Hirudinida) in the Baltic States

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The Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—are situated on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea between Russia and the Scandinavian countries. This region is characterized by diverse landscapes and numerous bodies of water, including lakes, peat ...
Jurgita Rutkauskaite-Suciliene, Justina Sniegiriovaite, Ingrida Satkauskiene   +2 more
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The Historical and Overlooked Collapse of Medicinal Leeches in Spain

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Leeches in genus Hirudo have been used in medicine since ancient times, but increased exploitation during the 19th century led to the depletion of several populations in Europe. A compilation of Hirudo records in Spain (H. troctina Johnson, 1816 and H. verbana Carena, 1820) show that the genus was more commonly mentioned and widely distributed
Francisco Blanco‐Garrido, M. Pilar González‐Sanz, Miguel Clavero   +2 more
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A new species of Orobdella (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Orobdellidae) from Taipei, Taiwan

ZooKeys, 2012
A new quadrannulate species of Orobdella, Orobdella ketagalansp. n., from Taipei, Taiwan, is described. This is the first record of Orobdella and the family Orobdellidae from Taiwan. This new species possesses small, paired sperm duct bulbs in the male reproductive system.
Nakano, Takafumi, Lai, Yi-Te
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Topotype-based redescription of the leech Torix tukubana (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniiformes: Glossiphoniidae) [PDF]

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 2020
A poorly-known proboscidate leech species, Torix tukubana (Oka, 1935), in which the mid-body somites are biannulate dorsally and triannulate ventrally, is redescribed based on new specimens collected from its type locality, Mt. Tsukubasan in Honshu, Japan. The redescription provides the internal digestive and genital organs of T. tukubana for the first
Kambayashi, Chiaki, Kurabayashi, Atsushi, Nakano, Takafumi   +2 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, Jabłońska-Barna, Izabela, Bielecki, Aleksander, Terlecki, Janusz   +3 more
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Provisional atlas of the freshwater leeches of the British Isles [PDF]

, 1981
Distribution maps were included in the second edition of the F.B.A. Scientific Publication on British freshwater leeches (Mann 1964). When that publication was extensively revised and enlarged to include a review of the literature on the ecology of ...
Elliott, J.M., Tullet, P.A.
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