WoRMS taxon details
Hirudo Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 370714
AphiaID: 370714
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Clitellata (Class) > Hirudinea (Subclass) > Euhirudinea (Infraclass) > Rhynchobdellida (Order) > Piscicolidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Piscicolidae | ||||||||||
| 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: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 Species Hirudo anceps accepted as Malacobdella grossa (Müller, 1776) Species Hirudo branchiatus Menzies, 1791 accepted as Ozobranchus branchiatus (Menzies, 1791) Species Hirudo geometra Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Piscicola geometra (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Hirudo grossa accepted as Malacobdella grossa (Müller, 1776) Species Hirudo muricata Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Hirudo officinalis Savigny, 1820 accepted as Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: once from western and southern Europe to the Ural mountains and the countries bordering the northeastern Mediterranean (Sawyer, 1986, p. 571), today uncommon to rare due to overcollection in 19th century and severe habitat destruction [details] Habitat: typically a small pond with muddy substrate and edged with littoral vegetation (Sawyer, 1986, p. 573) [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370714 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Kolb, J. (2013). Hirudo Linnaeus, 1758. 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=370714 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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