Medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) attacking and killing adult amphibians

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 343-346

  Merilä, Juha ^a   Sterner, Mattias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEECH;

AMPHIBIA; HIRUDINEA; HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS;

EID: 0036914440     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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