Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata

Hirudinea Savigny, 1822

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Euhirudinea Lukin, 1956

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: bloedzuigers sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: hirudineans; leeches sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Hayward, P. J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.

German: Egel; Hirudineen sources: Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p.;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: ヒル亜綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Latin: hirudi-, hirudo

Swedish: iglar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: П'явки

Literature

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. 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. 1(3):1–128.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Dmitrović, Dejan; Pešić, Vladimir. (2020). An updated checklist of leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ecologica Montenegrina. 29: 10-19.
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. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(11): 3082–3093.
additional source	Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p.
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. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Efirst: 1-28.
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.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
taxonomy source	Sawyer, Roy T. (1972). North American freshwater leeches, exclusive of the Piscicolidae, with a key to all species. Illinois Biological Monographs. 46: 1-155.
biology source	Sket, Boris; Trontelj, Peter. (2008). Global diversity of leeches (Hirudinea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia. 595(1): 129-137.