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Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 116986

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Clitellata (Class) > Hirudinea (Subclass) > Euhirudinea (Infraclass) > Rhynchobdellida (Order) > Piscicolidae (Family) > Pontobdellinae (Subfamily) > Pontobdella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Pontobdella Leach, 1815
Parent Pontobdella Leach, 1815
Synonymised
taxa		  Hirudo muricata Linnaeus, 1758 (Synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Llewellyn, L. C. (1966). Pontobdellinae (Piscicolidae : Hirudinea) in the British Museum (Natural History) with a review of the subfamily. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool.), 14(7), 389-439. [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: van der Land, J. (2001). Hirudinea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 234-235 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Sawyer, R.T. 1986. Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 375 p. [details]

original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch roggenbloedzuiger  [details]
Swedish taggvårtiga spoligeln  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
East North Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North Sea [details]
Feedingtype  parasitic: ectoparasitic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (191 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: known vector for Trypanosoma raiae to skate host Raia spp;
type species parasitic on skates Raia and rays Torpedo [details]

Ecology: host species of rays and sometimes plaice [details]
Images 
Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2006-08-09 - author: IMARES ()
qualitystatus: checked by Kolb, Jürgen on 2013-04-08 07:32:47

Van Beneden & Hesse (1864, pl. 01)
Van Beneden & Hesse (1864, pl. 01)
added on 2011-07-04 - author: P.J. Van Beneden & C.E. Hesse
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116986
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2013-04-08 01:59:45Z  changed  Kolb, Jürgen
  
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  Citation: Kolb, J. (2013). Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116986 on 2013-06-19
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