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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.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 10 inbound references to Hirudo, and connects out to Hirudo medicinalis, Animalia and Carl Linnaeus.
Vinony files it under Arhynchobdellida and Leech genera.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassClitellata
- OrderArhynchobdellida
- FamilyHirudinidae
via GBIF
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
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hirudinidae
- Image
- Leech-china.JPG
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- Commons category
- Hirudo
- taxon name
- Hirudo
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Βδέλλα
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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.