The European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis L.: Morphology and occurrence of an endangered species
Although the European medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis L. 1758) is one of the best-known members of the Hirudinea due to its use in phlebotomy, this species has been confused with the Mediterranean taxon H. verbana Carena 1820. Here we describe the morphology of adult and juvenile H. medicinalis...
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| Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Zoosystematics and Evolution |
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