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Hirudinea

2041  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2041)

Savigny, 1822
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  1. Infraclass Euhirudinea
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. <em>Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 1(3):1–128., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897
page(s): 105; note: Savigny (1822) appears to be the first to use some form of Hirudinea as a higher rank than family (here as 'Hirudinees' or 'Hirudineae') [details] OpenAccess publication
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hirudinea. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=2041 on 2025-11-12
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Hirudinea. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=2041 on 2025-11-12
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2013-04-09 01:06:46Z
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Kolb, Jürgen
2014-05-28 01:05:31Z
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Kolb, Jürgen
2018-05-18 03:17:21Z
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Read, Geoffrey

original description Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. <em>Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 1(3):1–128., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897
page(s): 105; note: Savigny (1822) appears to be the first to use some form of Hirudinea as a higher rank than family (here as 'Hirudinees' or 'Hirudineae') [details] OpenAccess publication

taxonomy source Sawyer, Roy T. (1972). North American freshwater leeches, exclusive of the Piscicolidae, with a key to all species. <em>Illinois Biological Monographs.</em> 46: 1-155., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37207816 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru. Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2), jul-dic: 301-375. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Dmitrovic, Dejan; Pešic, Vladimir. (2020). An updated checklist of leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) from Bosnia and Herzegovina. <em>Ecologica Montenegrina.</em> 29: 10-19., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/em.2020.29.2
note: Checklist [details] 

additional source Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
note: Only uses genus Hirudo, with no higher ranks [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

additional source Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p. [details] 

additional source Tessler, Michael; De Carle, Danielle; Voiklis, Madeleine L.; Gresham, Olivia A.; Neumann, Johannes; Cios, Stanislaw; Siddall, Mark E. (2018). Worms that suck: phylogenetic analysis of Hirudinea solidifies the position of Acanthobdellida and necessitates the dissolution of Rhynchobdellida. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> Efirst: 1-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.05.001
note: creates two new orders [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Phillips, Anna J.; Dornburg, A.; Zapfe, K. L.; Anderson, F. E.; James, S. W.; Erséus, C.; Moriarty Lemmon, E.; Lemmon, A. R.; Williams, B. W. (2019). Phylogenomic analysis of a putative missing link sparks reinterpretation of leech evolution. <em>Genome Biology and Evolution.</em> 11(11): 3082–3093., available online at https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/11/11/3082/5520445 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

biology source Sket, Boris; Trontelj, Peter. (2008). Global diversity of leeches (Hirudinea) in freshwater. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 595(1): 129-137., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-007-9010-8 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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Dutch bloedzuigers  [details]
English leeches  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hirudinea) 
To GenBank (0 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 043203) 
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