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Hirudinea
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All leeches (Hirudinea) eat meat and feed on many animals and also humans. We provide comprehensive descriptions of fresh water, terrestrial and marine leeches.
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Google PR: The authors show that the vector tissue in four species of leeches is composed of a mass of cells located directly beneath the copulatory area, and two thin strands extend toward the ovaries.
Details Hits: 4 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The authors studied the position, structure and function of pulsatile vesicles in parasitic leeches.
Details Hits: 2 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The authors determined leeches found on the fishes of the lakes Ukiel, WulpiDskie and Warniak.
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Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Histological, histochemical and bacteriological methods were used to study digestion and the digestive enzymes in nine species of leech.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The authors studied the leech hyaluronidase hyaluronoglucuronidase.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The local distribution and relative abundance of the leeches of the E. S. George Reserve in southeastern Michigan were investigated.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: A term paper on leeches, some of the most loathed and degraded invertebrates around?
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The authors state that Piscicola geometra (L.), Piscicola respirans Troschel, 1850, and Caspiobdella fadejewi (Epshtein, 1968) find their hosts (fishes) by reacting to their shadow.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The authors investigated the phylogenetic relationships of leeches with molecular data.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The authors found freshwater leeches from an industrially polluted creek to contain very high residues of chlorophenols.
Details Hits: 2 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The authors studied morphological and ultrastructural features of the salivary glands and proboscises of Placobdella ornata, Placobdella parasitica, and Desserobdella picta by light and electron microscopy.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The authors investigated the salivary gland cells of leeches.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 15. Class hirudinea.
This page states that leeches are among the most highly specialized of the annelids. They are predominantly freshwater organisms, although there are marine and terrestrial forms. Leeches are highly specialized predators that feed on blood.
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Basic introduction to the orders and families, habitat, and value as an indicator of overall ecosystem health.
Details Hits: 2 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The history of medicinal use of leeches.
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A study of the behaviour, biology, adaptation to habitat, feeding habits and importance to medicine, reveals leeches to be fascinating and extraordinary animals.
Details Hits: 3 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 20. The Hirudinea
An introduction to the biology, classification and ecology of leeches, the subclass Hirundinae
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