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WoRMS taxon details

Heptacyclus 
AphiaID: 154889

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Clitellata (Class) > Hirudinea (Subclass) > Euhirudinea (Infraclass) > Rhynchobdellida (Order) > Piscicolidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Genus
Parent Piscicolidae
Synonymised
taxa		  Malmiana Strand, 1942
Sources  basis of record: 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]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Williams, J. I., & Burreson, E. M. (2006). Phylogeny of the fish leeches (Oligochaeta, Hirudinida, Piscicolidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes and morphology. Zoologica Scripta, 35(6), 627-639. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Heptacyclus brunneus (Johansson, 1896)
Species Heptacyclus buthi Burreson & Kalman, 2006
Species Heptacyclus myoxocephali Srivastava
Species Heptacyclus philothermus (Sawyer, Lawler & Overstreet, 1975)
Species Heptacyclus scorpii (Malm, 1863)
Species Heptacyclus virgatus (Oka, 1910)

Species Heptacyclus albus Epstein & Utevsky, 1996 accepted as Oceanobdella alba (Epshtein & Utevsky, 1996)
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154889
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-20 12:27:09Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Heptacyclus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154889 on 2013-05-24
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