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Hirudinea 
AphiaID: 2041

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Clitellata (Class)
Authority Lamarck, 1818. revised
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subclass
Parent Clitellata
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Sawyer, R.T. 1986. Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 375 p. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch bloedzuigers  [details]
English leeches  [details]
German Egel  [details]
Latin hirudi-, hirudo  [details]
Swedish iglar  [details]
Ukrainian П'явки  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Infraclass Euhirudinea
Environment marine
Links To GenBank (0 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2041
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2013-04-09 01:06:46Z  changed  Kolb, Jürgen
  
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  Citation: Kolb, J. (2013). Hirudinea. In: Norenburg, J.; Gibson, R. (2013) World Nemertea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2041 on 2013-06-20
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