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Hirudo
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Description
Hirudo sp.
Common Name: European medicinal leech
General distribution: Eurasian
Newfoundland: Literature: Blanchard (1896) reports two specimens in the Paris Musée Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle from Newfoundland, location and date missing, and suggests that this species was introduced intentionally by man. No known resident population has been found since 1896 (Davies 1973, Madill 1985). The specimens reside in vial 149 at the Paris Musée Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle.
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Published as part of Madill, Jacqueline & Hovingh, Peter, 2007, Freshwater leech (Annelida: Hirudinida) distribution in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and adjacent regions: check-list, new records, new pigmentation forms, and Pleistocene refugia, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 1657 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179881Files
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.179881 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFFEFFFDFF9DCA45350FFFC4FFBD8143 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03C78785FF94CA4C3598FB51FB008481 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hirudinidae
- Genus
- Hirudo
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Arhynchobdellida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Blanchard, R. (1896) Courtes notices sur les Hirudinees. XXIII. Hirudinees de Terre-Neuve et des iles adjacentes. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 21, 137 - 141.
- Davies, R. W. (1973) The geographic distribution of freshwater Hirudinoidea in Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 51, 531 - 545.
- Madill, J. (1985) Synopsis speciorum. Annelida: Hirudinea. Bibliographia Invertebratorum Aquaticorum Canadensium, Volume 5, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa. 23 pp.