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Toward a taxonomic revision of the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 (Hirudinea: Hirudinidae): re-description of Hirudo troctina Johnson, 1816 from North Africa

Pages 1269-1289 | Published online: 06 Dec 2010

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Kaveh Darabi-Darestani, Alireza Sari, Alimorad Sarafrazi & Serge Utevsky. (2018) Entrapped by the uneven central and Middle Eastern terrains: Genetic status of populations of Hirudo orientalis (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudinida) with a phylogenetic review of the genus Hirudo. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 121, pages 52-60.
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Raja Ben Ahmed, Saïda Tekaya, Anna Z. Urbisz & Piotr Świątek. (2015) Ultrastructural study of spermatogenesis and sperm in the African medicinal leech Hirudo troctina Johnson, 1816 (Annelida, Hirudinida). Tissue and Cell 47:3, pages 242-253.
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U. Kutschera & Joy Elliott. (2014) The European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis L.: Morphology and occurrence of an endangered species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 90:2, pages 271-280.
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J.Malcolm Elliott & Ulrich Kutschera. (2011) Medicinal Leeches: Historical use, Ecology, Genetics and Conservation. Freshwater Reviews 4:1, pages 21-41.
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Raja Ben Ahmed, Anna Z. Fuchs, Saïda Tekaya, Abdul Halim Harrath & Piotr Świątek. (2010) Ovary cords organization in Hirudo troctina Johnson, 1816 and Limnatis nilotica (Savigny, 1822) (Clitellata, Hirudinea). Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology 249:3-4, pages 201-207.
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Serge Utevsky, Maja Zagmajster, Andrei Atemasov, Oleksandr Zinenko, Olga Utevska, Andrei Utevsky & Peter Trontelj. (2010) Distribution and status of medicinal leeches (genus Hirudo ) in the Western Palaearctic: anthropogenic, ecological, or historical effects? . Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20:2, pages 198-210.
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Serge Utevsky, Nataliya Kovalenko, Karyna Doroshenko, Laima Petrauskienė & Vyacheslav Klymenko. (2009) Chromosome numbers for three species of medicinal leeches (Hirudo spp.). Systematic Parasitology 74:2, pages 95-102.
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Serge Y. Utevsky & Peter Trontelj. (2005) A new species of the medicinal leech (Oligochaeta, Hirudinida, Hirudo) from Transcaucasia and an identification key for the genus Hirudo. Parasitology Research 98:1, pages 61-66.
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Peter Trontelj & Serge Y. Utevsky. (2005) Celebrity with a neglected taxonomy: molecular systematics of the medicinal leech (genus Hirudo). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34:3, pages 616-624.
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