Hirudinea (subclass)
Esquema
Jerarquía
Eukaryota (domain) > Animalia (kingdom) > Annelida (phylum) > Clitellata (class)
Descripción
Members of a subclass containing around 650 species of segmented worms characterized by a small sucker, which contains the mouth at the anterior end of the body and a large sucker located at the posterior end, having a flattened body, and being aquatic or living on moist soil. A few species have been used by humans in clinical bloodletting for thousands of years.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- 蛭亞綱 (亞綱) [zh]
- zhì yǎ gāng [zh]
- zhi ya gang [zh]
- chih ya kang [zh]
- leeches [en]
- leech [en]
- hirudi [en]
- 蛭綱 [zh]