Name - Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus 1758

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1439332 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Hirudo medicinalis

• Hirudo medicinalis L.

• Hirudo medicinalis (L.)

• Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Species

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Notes on distinguishing cocoons and the juveniles of Hirudo medicinalis and Haemopis sanguisuga (Hirudinea).
• Toward a taxonomic revision of the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 (Hirudinea: Hirudinidae): Re-description of Hirudo troctina Johnson, 1816 from North Africa.
• Barcoding, types and the Hirudo files: Using information content to critically evaluate the identity of DNA barcodes.
• The present state of the leech fauna (Annelida: Hirudinea) in Lithuania.

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758 1758: 649. [Index Animalium Entry]

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