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Hirudo
Sign in to saveHirudo is a genus of leeches of the family Hirudinidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassClitellata
- OrderArhynchobdellida
- FamilyHirudinidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 109
- With media
- 74
- Family
- Hirudinidae
- Collections
- YPM, USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tanzania, Nicaragua
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hirudinidae
- Image
- Leech-china.JPG
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- Commons category
- Hirudo
- taxon name
- Hirudo
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- genus
- taxon common name
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Distribution
- Medical use
- Conservation status
- References
Hirudo is a genus of leeches of the family Hirudinidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
The two well-accepted species within the genus are: Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 Hirudo nipponia Whitman, 1886 Three other species, previously synonymized with H. medicinalis, were described in 2005 and are gaining acceptance: Hirudo verbana Hirudo orientalis Hirudo sulukii Hirudo troctina Hirudo tianjinensis
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hirudo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.