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Perry C. Holt; Comments on the classification of the Clitellata. Hydrobiologia 180:1-5, 1989

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Sawyer's (1986) assignment of the Branchiobdellida to the Hirudinea is reviewed and rejected. The Clitellata is considered a subphylum of the phylum Annelida and contains the classes Oligochaeta, Hirudinea and Branchiobdellida.