“…Several studies devoted to ovarian morphology and the course of oogenesis in true leeches have been published recently (Świątek, ,b, , ; Spałek‐Wołczynska et al., ; Świątek et al., , ,b; Ben Ahmed et al., , ), providing substantial new comparative data about the internal ovarian organization in leeches. Specifically, these new data include the non‐polarized ovary cords in Glossiphoniidae, egg follicles in Piscicolidae, polarized ovary cords in Hirudinidae and Haemopidae and in Erpobdellidae, as well as detailed descriptions of oogenesis (i.e.…”