Usage examples (26)

• Hirudo medicinalis is native to Europe, but its populations have been declining.
• The medidicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis feeds on vertebrate, mainly mammalian, blood.
• Their analysis clearly showed that the commercial and laboratory specimens were not Hirudo medicinalis, as they were labeled, but Hirudo verbana.
• Until now, the leeches were assumed to be the species Hirudo medicinalis, but new research reveals they are actually a closely related but genetically distinct species,...