Hirudo

Hirudo sp. Common Name: European medicinal leech General distribution: Eurasian Newfoundland: Literature: Blanchard (1896) reports two specimens in the Paris Musée Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle from Newfoundland, location and date missing, and suggests that this species was introduced intentionally...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Madill, Jacqueline, Hovingh, Peter
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2007
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Arhynchobdellida
Hirudinidae
Hirudo
Newfoundland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631629
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Summary:Hirudo sp. Common Name: European medicinal leech General distribution: Eurasian Newfoundland: Literature: Blanchard (1896) reports two specimens in the Paris Musée Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle from Newfoundland, location and date missing, and suggests that this species was introduced intentionally by man. No known resident population has been found since 1896 (Davies 1973, Madill 1985). The specimens reside in vial 149 at the Paris Musée Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle. Published as part of Madill, Jacqueline & Hovingh, Peter, 2007, Freshwater leech (Annelida: Hirudinida) distribution in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and adjacent regions: check-list, new records, new pigmentation forms, and Pleistocene refugia, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 1657 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179881

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