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    Leech (redirect from Hirudinea)
    are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes...
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    Hirudinea. The oligochaetes contain the tubificids (Naididae, Lumbricidae, and Lumbriculidae - commonly the tube worms and the earthworms. Hirudinea contains...
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    leech and the physician: biology, etymology, and medical practice with Hirudinea medicinalis". World Journal of Surgery. 24 (7): 878–883. doi:10.1007/s002680010141...
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    burrowers that feed on wholly or partly decomposed organic materials. Hirudinea, whose name means "leech-shaped" and whose best known members are leeches...
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    Turtle leeches are a genus, Ozobranchus, of leeches (Hirudinea) that feed exclusively on the blood of turtles. Only two species—Ozobranchus margoi and...
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    of speciation in an ancient lake species flock: the leech genus Dina (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) in Lake Ohrid". Biogeosciences. 7 (11): 3387–3402. Bibcode:2010BGeo...
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  • Dehdashti, Behrooz (1987). "Specialized pelagic feeding by Erpobdella montezuma (Hirudinea)". Holarctic Ecology. 10 (3): 235–240. JSTOR 3682581. v t e...
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  • handle temperatures as low as 4 to 6 °C (39.2– 42.8 °F). "A cave leech (Hirudinea, Erpobdellidae) from Croatia with unique morphological features". Croatian...
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    infraclass of the Hirudinea. These clitellate annelids are of somewhat unclear relationships; namely the relationships of Hirudinea with oligochaetes...
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    Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 1–6. doi:10.1071/IT01011. "Phylum Annelida: Class Hirudinea (Leeches)", Parasites of North American Freshwater Fishes, Ithaca, NY:...
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    a new leech species from North America, Helobdella austinensis n. sp.(Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae), with observations on its feeding behaviour. Zoosyst...
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    Rigbi, Meir (2000-01-01). "Jaw anatomy of the blood-sucking leeches, Hirudinea Limnatis nilotica and Hirudo medicinalis, and its relationship to their...
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    with microcomputed tomography and revision of the genus Chtonobdella (Hirudinea: Haemadipsidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 45 (5): 552–565. doi:10.1111/zsc...
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    Shabnam & Saglam, Naim (2020). "The status of the leech fauna (Annelida, Hirudinea) at the Eastern Region of Azerbaijan". Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity...
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    a separate subclass from the Hirudinea. However, the World Register of Marine Species places them within the Hirudinea, as a sister group to Euhirudinea...
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    number of other freshwater annelids is known: 30 species of leeches (Hirudinea), and 4 polychaetes. Several hundred species of nematodes are known from...
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  • natural history and behavior of Erpobdella punctata (Leidy) (Annelida: Hirudinea)". American Midland Naturalist. 83 (1): 65–80. doi:10.2307/2424006. JSTOR 2424006...
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    U. "Description of a new leech species, Erpobdella wuttkei nov. sp.(Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae)." Borda, Elizabeth; Siddall, Mark E (Jan 2004). "Arhynchobdellida...
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    bristles) borne on its first five segments. It is in fact unique among Hirudinea in having chaetae at all, and also in having a coelom (body cavity) divided...
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  • Tabanidae (horse flies) Tantulocarida Triatominae Pea crab Sacculina Hirudinea (some leeches) Monogeneans are flatworms, generally ectoparasites on fish...
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    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Rhynchobdellida Family: Piscicolidae Genus: Trachelobdella Species:...
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    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Rhynchobdellida Family: Glossiphoniidae Genus: Haementeria Species:...
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    Oka, A. 1917. Zoological Results of a Tour in the Far East, pt. III. Hirudinea. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, VI, pp. 157-176, pl. VII. Sawyer...
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    "Comparative reproductive morphology of two species of Macrobdella (Hirudinea: Arhynchobdellida: Macrobdellidae)". Zoomorphology. 142 (2): 153–168....
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    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Arhynchobdellida Family: Hirudinidae Genus: Hirudo Species: H. orientalis...
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    interests were exceptionally broad, including numerous studies of leeches (Hirudinea), harvestmen spiders (Opiliones), crustaceans, chironomid flies and Neotropical...
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    with microcomputed tomography and revision of the genus Chtonobdella (Hirudinea: Haemadipsidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 45 (5): 556. doi:10.1111/zsc.12165...
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    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Arhynchobdellida Family: Hirudinidae Genus: Hirudo Species: H. verbana...
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    of speciation in an ancient lake species flock: the leech genus Dina (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) in Lake Ohrid" (PDF). Biogeosciences. 7 (11): 3387–3402...
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    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Arhynchobdellida Family: Salifidae Genus: Mimobdella Species: M...
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