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    Species Accepted

    Piscicola geometra (Linnaeus, 1761)

    common fish leech

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Recorded as introduced in 1 country or island

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      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      ItalyYes

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Fischegel German
      Gemeiner Fischegel German
      common fish leech English
      fiskeigle dnj
      fiskigel Swedish
      great tailed leech English
      pijawka rybia Polish
      visbloedzuiger Dutch
      vissenbloedzuiger Dutch

      Treatments

      3 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
      PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
      Hansson. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): South Scandinavian marine Annelida Check-List.
      Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp.
      van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
      Kedra, M. (2010). A Checklist of marine species occurring in Polish marine waters, compiled in the framework of the PESI EU FP7 project.
      Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.
      van der Land, J. (2001). Hirudinea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 234-235
      Furiness, Sharon; Williams, Julianne I.; Nagasawa, Kazuya; Burreson, Eugene M. (2007). A collection of fish leeches (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from Japan and surrounding waters, including redescriptions of three species. Journal of Parasitology. 93(4): 875-83.

      Citation

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