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

Euhirudinea Lukin, 1956

Rank: Infraclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Arhynchobdellida Blanchard, 1894
Rhynchobdellida Blanchard, 1894

Literature

basis of record

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

basis of record

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

additional source

Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey. (2008). A Catalogue of the Piscicolidae, Ozobranchidae, and Arhynchobdellida (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudinea) from South America. Neotropical Biology and Conservation. 3(1):39-48.

additional source

Darabi-Darestani, Kaveh; Sari, Alireza; Khomenko, Andrii; Kvist, Sebastian Utevsky, Serge. (2021). DNA barcoding of Iranian leeches (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 59(7): 1438-1452.

Genbank

loading

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Euhirudinea. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2116

Image

loading

Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

Provided by

logo erms

GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2116

Last modified

2014-06-12 by Jürgen Kolb

Your feedback

click here

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Your e-mail address:

Your message: