Placobdelloides

Placobdelloides is a genus of glossophoniid leeches.[1]

Placobdelloides
Placobdelloides siamensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Rhynchobdellida
Family: Glossiphoniidae
Genus: Placobdelloides
Sawyer, 1986

Description

Species of Placobdelloides lack a jaw and usually feed with a protrusible proboscis; they are predacious or sanguivorous, or both, on a variety of prey such as shrimps, waterfowl, fish, amphibians, turtles, crocodiles or mammals.[2]

Species

The genus includes 16 species found worldwide: [2]

  • Placobdelloides bancrofti (Best, 1931)
  • Placobdelloides bdellae (Ingram, 1957)
  • Placobdelloides emydae (Harding, 1924)
  • Placobdelloides fimbriata (Johansson, 1909)
  • Placobdelloides fulva (Harding, 1921)
  • Placobdelloides horai (Baugh, 1960)
  • Placobdelloides indica (Baugh, 1960)
  • Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi (Johansson, 1909)
  • Placobdelloides maorica (Benham, 1907)
  • Placobdelloides multistriata (Johansson, 1909)
  • Placobdelloides octostriata (Grube, 1866)
  • Placobdelloides okadai (Oka, 1925)
  • Placobdelloides okai (Soós, 1969)
  • Placobdelloides siamensis (Oka, 1917)
  • Placobdelloides stellapapillosa Goverdich et al., 2002
  • Placobdelloides undulata (Harding, 1924)

References
  1. Sawyer, Roy T. (1986). Leech Biology and Behaviour. Volume II: Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-857622-8.
  2. Chiangkul, Krittiya; Trivalairat, Poramad; Purivirojkul, Watchariya (2018). "Redescription of the Siamese shield leech Placobdelloides siamensis with new host species and geographic range". Parasite. 25: 56. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018056. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6254108. PMID 30474597.


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