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The pigmented tissue around the gut of the blood feeding leech, Hirudo medicinalis, was regarded by Moquin-Tandon in 1826 (ref. 1) as a liver. Spiess2 challenged this concept on the grounds that the pigmented tissue was not derived from the gut, but he agreed that it was a functional liver even if it was not a morphological or an embryological one.
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WINDSOR, D. Faeces of the Medicinal Leech, Hirudo medicinalis, are Haem. Nature 227, 1153–1154 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2271153b0
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