[PDF][PDF] A systematic overview of the medicinal importance of sanguivorous leeches

SM Zaidi, SS Jameel, F Zaman, S Jilani, A Sultana… - Altern med rev, 2011 - altmedrev.com
Leeches are a class of segmented invertebrates, known for their blood-feeding habits and
used in phlebotomy to treat various ailments since antiquity. In Europe, medicinal leeches …

Phylogeny and phylogeography of medicinal leeches (genus Hirudo): Fast dispersal and shallow genetic structure

P Trontelj, SY Utevsky - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
Medicinal leeches (Hirudo spp.) are among the best-studied invertebrates in many aspects
of their biology. Yet, relatively little is known about their biogeography, ecology and …

Annelida (clitellata): Oligochaeta, branchiobdellida, hirudinida, and acanthobdellida

FR Govedich, BA Bain, WE Moser, SR Gelder… - … and classification of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on freshwater annelids of North America.
Freshwater annelids (oligochaetes, branchiobdellidans, leeches, and acanthobdellids) can …

Phylogeny of macrophagous leeches (Hirudinea, Clitellata) based on molecular data and evaluation of the barcoding locus

A Oceguera‐Figueroa, AJ Phillips… - Zoologica …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Oceguera‐Figueroa, A., Phillips, AJ, Pacheco‐Chaves, B., Reeves, WK & Siddall, ME
(2010). Phylogeny of macrophagous leeches (Hirudinea, Clitellata) based on molecular …

Bacterial symbiont and salivary peptide evolution in the context of leech phylogeny

ME Siddall, GS Min, FM Fontanella, AJ Phillips… - Parasitology, 2011 - cambridge.org
The evolutionary history of leeches is employed as a general framework for understanding
more than merely the systematics of this charismatic group of annelid worms, and serves as …

[PDF][PDF] New records of leeches of the genus Limnatis (Hirudinea, Praobdellidae) from the South Caucasus and Central Asia: phylogenetic relationships of Eurasian …

S Utevsky, Y Mabrouki, AF Taybi… - Biodiversity and …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Tandon, 1827 infest mucous membranes of various mammals, including humans and
domestic ungulates. The type species of the genus L. nilotica (Savigny, 1822) was initially …

Leech collections from Washington State, with the description of two new species of Placobdella (Annelida: Glossiphoniidae)

A Oceguera-Figueroa, S Kvist, SC Watson… - American Museum …, 2010 - BioOne
An assessment of the hirudinifauna of Washington State is presented. In total, 11 distinct
leech species were found representing two new records for the state and two new species of …

The eyes have it: long-distance dispersal by an intraorbital leech parasite of birds

ME Siddall, R Rood-Goldman… - The Journal of …, 2013 - meridian.allenpress.com
A leech was found parasitizing the ocular orbit of a common redstart captured during a
faunistic survey of Antikythira in the Aegean Sea during the spring migration of 2012 …

Comparative reproductive morphology of two species of Macrobdella (Hirudinea: Arhynchobdellida: Macrobdellidae)

AJ Phillips, FE Goetz - Zoomorphology, 2023 - Springer
Leech internal morphology has historically been examined through dissection, serial
sectioning, or whole mounts, techniques that are irreversibly destructive to the specimen …

Phylogenetic position and description of a new species of medicinal leech from the Eastern United States

AJ Phillips, R Salas-Montiel, S Kvist… - Journal of …, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT A new species of medicinal leech, Macrobdella mimicus n. sp., is described
from specimens collected in Maryland; this is the first description of a North American …