• Thumbnail for Leech
    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...
    56 KB (5,827 words) - 21:35, 12 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Clitellata
    Hirudinea. The oligochaetes contain the tubificids (Naididae, Lumbricidae, and Lumbriculidae - commonly the tube worms and the earthworms. Hirudinea contains...
    10 KB (1,142 words) - 08:55, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hirudo medicinalis
    leech and the physician: biology, etymology, and medical practice with Hirudinea medicinalis". World Journal of Surgery. 24 (7): 878–883. doi:10.1007/s002680010141...
    19 KB (1,952 words) - 19:32, 11 December 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (232 words) - 04:44, 30 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Helobdella
    a new leech species from North America, Helobdella austinensis n. sp.(Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae), with observations on its feeding behaviour. Zoosyst...
    3 KB (295 words) - 03:43, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Haemopis sanguisuga
    Shabnam & Saglam, Naim (2020). "The status of the leech fauna (Annelida, Hirudinea) at the Eastern Region of Azerbaijan". Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity...
    6 KB (637 words) - 16:48, 1 December 2024
  • Dehdashti, Behrooz (1987). "Specialized pelagic feeding by Erpobdella montezuma (Hirudinea)". Holarctic Ecology. 10 (3): 235–240. JSTOR 3682581. v t e...
    953 bytes (54 words) - 02:23, 1 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Turtle leech
    Turtle leeches are a genus, Ozobranchus, of leeches (Hirudinea) that feed exclusively on the blood of turtles. Only two species—Ozobranchus margoi and...
    10 KB (1,165 words) - 16:51, 1 December 2024
  • Activity of the Ozark Highlands Leech, Macrobdella diplotertia (Annelida: Hirudinea) in North-central Arkansas". Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science...
    3 KB (232 words) - 04:24, 5 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hirudo
    Rigbi, Meir (2000-01-01). "Jaw anatomy of the blood-sucking leeches, Hirudinea Limnatis nilotica and Hirudo medicinalis, and its relationship to their...
    7 KB (691 words) - 16:48, 1 December 2024
  • natural history and behavior of Erpobdella punctata (Leidy) (Annelida: Hirudinea)". American Midland Naturalist. 83 (1): 65–80. doi:10.2307/2424006. JSTOR 2424006...
    5 KB (461 words) - 04:44, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Haementeria ghilianii
    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Rhynchobdellida Family: Glossiphoniidae Genus: Haementeria Species:...
    6 KB (609 words) - 18:45, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Erpobdella octoculata
    Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 1–6. doi:10.1071/IT01011. "Phylum Annelida: Class Hirudinea (Leeches)", Parasites of North American Freshwater Fishes, Ithaca, NY:...
    14 KB (1,590 words) - 14:14, 15 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Placobdelloides siamensis
    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...
    3 KB (299 words) - 21:07, 3 November 2024
  • H.; Sharma, S. (Dec 2001). "Leeches of the suborder Hirudiniformes (Hirudinea: Haemopidae, Hirudinidae, Haemadipsidae) from the Ganga watershed (Nepal...
    3 KB (264 words) - 20:56, 21 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hirudo verbana
    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Arhynchobdellida Family: Hirudinidae Genus: Hirudo Species: H. verbana...
    7 KB (711 words) - 16:48, 1 December 2024
  • Acanthocephala, or the spiny-headed worms all of which are parasitic. Hirudinea, extoparasitic annelids commonly known as leeches Nematoda, or roundworms...
    2 KB (195 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kinabalu giant red leech
    Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Arhynchobdellida Family: Salifidae Genus: Mimobdella Species: M...
    3 KB (322 words) - 16:51, 1 December 2024
  • Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Arhynchobdellida Suborder: Hirudiniformes Family: Cylicobdellidae...
    2 KB (186 words) - 16:48, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phytobdella catenifera
    and their Ways. Malay. Nat. J. 15.152-159. Moore, J.P. 1942. Leeches (Hirudinea) principally from the Malay Peninsula, with descriptions of new species...
    4 KB (472 words) - 16:48, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Copper shark
    (November 2000). "Marine leech, Stibarobdella macrothela (Schmarda, 1861) (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae), parasitic on the whaler shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus...
    41 KB (4,606 words) - 09:32, 25 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Arhynchobdellida
    U. "Description of a new leech species, Erpobdella wuttkei nov. sp.(Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae)." Borda, Elizabeth; Siddall, Mark E (Jan 2004). "Arhynchobdellida...
    8 KB (500 words) - 16:43, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haemadipsidae
    with microcomputed tomography and revision of the genus Chtonobdella (Hirudinea: Haemadipsidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 45 (5): 552–565. doi:10.1111/zsc...
    9 KB (797 words) - 16:48, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Annelid
    burrowers that feed on wholly or partly decomposed organic materials. Hirudinea, whose name means "leech-shaped" and whose best known members are leeches...
    88 KB (9,011 words) - 17:41, 24 November 2024
  • Tabanidae (horse flies) Tantulocarida Triatominae Pea crab Sacculina Hirudinea (some leeches) Monogeneans are flatworms, generally ectoparasites on fish...
    4 KB (305 words) - 04:43, 17 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Dinobdella ferox
    species of leech are known to feed on humans including Tyrannobdella rex, Hirudinea granulosa, and Hirundinea viridis. Human infections have been shown to...
    5 KB (663 words) - 16:48, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sedentaria
    Opheliida Capitellida Echiura Capitellidae Terebelliformia Maldanomorpha Clitellata "Oligochaetes" Hirudinea Incertae sedis ?Myzostomida ?Spintheridae...
    5 KB (369 words) - 21:53, 3 November 2024
  • Clade: Pleistoannelida Clade: Sedentaria Class: Clitellata Subclass: Hirudinea Order: Acanthobdellida Family: Acanthobdellidae Genus: Acanthobdella Grube...
    861 bytes (42 words) - 17:47, 13 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lake Baikal
    number of other freshwater annelids is known: 30 species of leeches (Hirudinea), and 4 polychaetes. Several hundred species of nematodes are known from...
    79 KB (8,896 words) - 21:54, 25 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Placobdelloides
    glossiphoniid leech and a parasite of turtles from lower southern Thailand (Hirudinea, Rhynchobdellida)". ZooKeys (882): 1–24. doi:10.3897/zookeys.882.35229...
    3 KB (230 words) - 15:15, 16 April 2023