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The most ancient annelid group consists of the free-living polychaetes that evolved in the Cambrian period, being plentiful in the Burgess Shale about 500 million years ago. Oligochaetes evolved from polychaetes and the leeches branched off from the oligochaetes. [ 16 ]
List of annelid families describes the taxa relationships in the phylum Annelida, which contains more than 17,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches. [ 1 ] Class Polychaeta
Hirudinaria [1] is a genus of large Asian leeches belonging to the family Cylicobdellidae; [2] previously it was placed in the Hirudinidae. [3] [a] It includes species such as H. manillensis that may be called "Asian medicinal leeches", but together with the genus Poecilobdella, they are also described as Asian buffalo leeches.
The annelids, collectively called Annelida, are a large phylum of animals, comprising the segmented worms, with about 15 000 modern species including the well-known earthworms and leeches The main article for this category is Annelid .
Commonly known as jawed land leeches, these annelids are known from subtropical and tropical regions around the Indian and Pacific Ocean. [1] Well-known Haemadipsidae are for example the Indian Leech ( Haemadipsa sylvestris ) and the yamabiru or Japanese Mountain Leech ( Haemadipsa zeylanica ).
Myzobdella is a genus of leeches in the family Piscicolidae.The genus name derives from two Greek words: μυζω (I suck), and βδελλα (leech). [2]It includes the following species: [3] [1]
Photo of a leech, probably a member of the genus Torix, on a frog of the Rana genus uploaded from iNaturalist. The number of species the genus contains is somewhat disputed between taxonomic databases and scientific papers. Torix cotylifer Blanchard, 1898 [11] [12] Torix mirus Blanchard, 1893 [11] [12] Torix novazealandiae (Dendy & Olliver ...
The Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera [3] lists: . Hirudo Linnaeus, 1758; Limnatis Moquin-Tandon, 1827; Limnobdella Blanchard, 1893; Ornithobdella Benham, 1909 ...