The diversity of freshwater leeches (Clitellata; Hirudinida) of Iran was estimated by
employing both DNA barcoding and species delimitation methods. Phylogenetic …

The increasing demands for medicinal leeches around the world has increased the need for
new sources of leeches. To assess the feasibility of culturing a new medicinal leech species …

The present checklist contains 22 species belonging to 14 genera of six families of leeches
known to date from Iran. Five species including Dina punctata punctata Johannson, 1927 …

The current study was performed to determine Hirudinea species diversity collected from
rice fields of Guilan province from June 2012 to June 2020. This study reports the most …

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the internal and external morphological
structures of two species of medicinal leeches (Hirudo sulukii and Hirudo verbana) …

Although medicinal leeches are used for many years in Azerbaijan for therapeutic purposes,
relatively little is still known about their distribution, economic Importance, and general …

Phylogenetic relationships between species of the genus Hirudo plus genetic variation in
the entire distribution range of Hirudo orientalis were investigated based on mitochondrial …

Medicinal leeches have lately come into the spotlight as useful and effective invertebrates in
the treatment of some diseases and surgical procedures. Populations of the Iranian …

Introduction: Among freshwater invertebrates, leeches are one of the main groups of the
world's most widely distributed water resource communities, found in almost all types of …

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı iki farklı tıbbi sülük (Hirudo sulukii ve Hirudo verbana) türünün iç
ve dış morfolojik yapılarının incelenmesiydi. Yöntemler: Bu çalışma, 1995-2016 yılları …