Misclassified for Centuries, Medicinal Leeches Found to Be Three

Why was this man's luggage stuffed with 5,000 leeches?

Canada Medical Crops, PDF, Herbalism

Cryptic taxonomic diversity and high-latitude melanism in the glossiphoniid leech assemblage from the Eurasian Arctic

Tracking endangered mammals with the leeches that feed on them

Hirudinea Lamarck 1818: Evolutionary origin and taxonomy of the six medicinal leeches (genus Hirudo) known today

Frontiers Higher Network Activity Induced by Tactile Compared to Electrical Stimulation of Leech Mechanoreceptors

Representative adult specimen of the European land leech (Xerobdella

A new species of Hirudo (Annelida: Hirudinidae): historical biogeography of Eurasian medicinal leeches, BMC Zoology

Unrecognized diversity of Trocheta species (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae): resolving a century-old taxonomic problem in Crimean leeches: Systematics and Biodiversity: Vol 18, No 2

PDF) Genetic Diversity of Freshwater Leeches in Lake Gusinoe (Eastern Siberia, Russia)

Hirudo medicinalis - Wikipedia

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