Reproduction
model
Freshwater leech, four-eyed leech
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Series of 36 wax models showing the development of a leech by Rudolf Weisker. The original Weisker Catalogue lists 38 models in this series.
Hemiclepsis marginata
Wax Models, Weisker Wax Models
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO]
circa 1880 to circa 1887
[nb-NO]Documentation[nb-NO]
- Grant Museum Blog Series
- Nicholls, Emma-Louise, Specimen of the Week Blog Series
- Davies, Nina, The Rudolf Weisker Wax Model Embryo Series Clepsine marginata (=Hemiclepsis marginata)
- Nicholls, Emma-Louise, Specimen of the Week Blog Series
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]
LDUCZ-G525
Grant Museum of Zoology
Hierarchy
Animalia (kingdom)
Eumetazoa (subkingdom)
Bilateria
Protostomia
Lophotrochozoa
Annelida (phylum/division)
Clitellata (class)
Hirudinea (subclass)
Rhynchobdellida (order)
Glossiphoniidae (family)
Hemiclepsis (genus)
marginata (species)
