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Global diversity of leeches (Hirudinea) in freshwater

  • Sket B
  • Trontelj P
Springer Netherlands, (2008), 129-137
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_15
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Abstract

Leeches (Hirudinea) constitute a relatively small monophyletic group of highly specialized annelids, but may play important roles as invertebrate predators in freshwater, while others are infamous for their ectoparasitic bloodsucking. About 15% of the 680 described...

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Sket, B., & Trontelj, P. (2008). Global diversity of leeches (Hirudinea) in freshwater. In Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (pp. 129–137). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_15

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