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  Suborder Hirudiniformes

Family Haemopidae

    Genus Haemopis -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Bdellarogatis
    Genus Mollibdella
    Genus Whitmania

Taxon Information

The Family Haemopidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Haemopidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental; 18 species in 3 genera worldwide, 7 Nearctic species in 1 genus] (Sket & Trontelj, 2008).
• Haemopidae, [North America] (Smith, 2001).

Bibliography

• Sket, B. & P. Trontelj. 2008. Global diversity of leeches (Hirudinea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 129-137. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Annelida (Polychaetes, Aeolosomatidae, aquatic oligochaetes, Branchiobdellida, leeches). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 269-325.

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