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List of works by Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa

A new species of Branchellion Savigny, 1822 (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae), a marine leech parasitic on the giant electric ray Narcine entemedor Jordan & Starks (Batoidea: Narcinidae) off Oaxaca, Mexico

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

A new species of Hystrignathus (Nematoda: Thelastomatoidea: Hystrignathidae) associated with the Bess Beetle Passalus Interruptus Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Passalidae) from The Peruvian Amazonia

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

An exceptional case of mitochondrial tRNA duplication-deletion events in blood-feeding leeches

Barcoding, types and the Hirudo files: using information content to critically evaluate the identity of DNA barcodes

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Biological introductions or native ranges: two curious cases of new distributional records in the Panama Canal

Comparative Mitogenomics of Leeches (Annelida: Clitellata): Genome Conservation and Placobdella-Specific trnD Gene Duplication

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DNA barcoding reveals Mexican diversity within the freshwater leech genusHelobdella(Annelida: Glossiphoniidae)

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Description of a new leech species of Helobdella (Clitellata: Glossiphoniidae) from Mexico with a review of Mexican congeners and a taxonomic key

scientific article (publication date: 19 December 2014)

Distribution of the New England Medicinal Leech, Macrobdella sestertia Whitman, 1886 and redeterminations of specimens of Macrobdella (Annelida: Clitellata: Macrobdellidae) at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

scientific article published in 2016

From the Worm in a Bottle of Mezcal: iDNA Confirmation of a Leech Parasitizing the Antillean Manatee

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Leech Collections from Washington State, with the Description of Two New Species ofPlacobdella(Annelida: Glossiphoniidae)

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Leeches from Mexico City, remnants of the ancient lake

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Mitogenome of the blood feeding leech (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae) from Tabasco, Mexico

Molecular phylogeny of the New World bloodfeeding leeches of the genus Haementeria and reconsideration of the biannulate genus Oligobdella

scientific article published on November 12, 2011

Morphological and molecular data reveal a new species of Lueheia (Acanthocephala: Plagiorhynchidae) from Turdus migratorius (Turdidae) in central Mexico and its phylogenetic implications within the family

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Phylogenetic analysis of Placobdella (Hirudinea: Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) with consideration of COI variation.

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Phylogenomics of Reichenowia parasitica, an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont of the freshwater leech Placobdella parasitica

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Phylogeny of macrophagous leeches (Hirudinea, Clitellata) based on molecular data and evaluation of the barcoding locus

scholarly article by Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa et al published December 2010 in Zoologica Scripta

Prevalence, Abundance, and Intensity of Implanted Spermatophores in the Leech Haementeria officinalis (Glossiphoniidae: Hirudinida) from Guanajuato, Mexico

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

The potential of aquatic haematophagous, liquidosomatophagous and macrophagous leeches as a tool for iDNA characterisation

Tyrannobdella rex n. gen. n. sp. and the evolutionary origins of mucosal leech infestations

scientific article published in 2010

When predator becomes prey: investigating the salivary transcriptome of the shark-feeding leechPontobdella macrothela(Hirudinea: Piscicolidae)

scholarly article by Sebastian Kvist et al published August 2016 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society