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.[3]
^Whitman CO (1886) The Leeches of Japan. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. (series 2) 26(103): 317-416.
^IRMNG: taxon details Hirudinaria (retrieved 28 August 2021)
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abcPhillips AJ (2012) Phylogenetic placement of a new species of Asian buffalo leech (Arhynchobdellida: Hirudinidae), and confirmation of human-mediated dispersal of a congener to the Caribbean. Invertebrate Systematics, 26, 293–302.
DOI: also available from:
ResearchGate (accessed 29 August 2021).
^GBIF: taxon details: Hirudinaria Whitman, 1886 (retrieved 28 August 2021)
^Note: Hirudinaria Scacchi, 1833 is now accepted as Galeomma Turton, 1825 in the bivalve
Mollusc family
Galeommatidae.