Canadian Register of Marine Species - Pontobdellinae Llewellyn, 1966

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Pontobdellinae Llewellyn, 1966

AphiaID

724622 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:724622)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subfamily

Parent

Piscicolidae Johnston, 1865

Original name

Pontobdellinae Llewellyn, 1966

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Genus Mooreobdellina Epshtein, 1972
Genus Oxytonostoma Malm, 1863
Genus Pontobdella Leach, 1815
Genus Stibarobdella Leigh-Sharpe, 1925 accepted as Pontobdella Leach, 1815 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

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.
page(s): 404; note: "conspicuously tuberculate marine leeches may conveniently be separated in a new subfamily Pontobdellinae containing the genera Stibarobdella, Pontobdella, and Pentabdella gen. nov., for species in wh...

"conspicuously tuberculate marine leeches may conveniently be separated in a new subfamily Pontobdellinae containing the genera Stibarobdella, Pontobdella, and Pentabdella gen. nov., for species in which the mid-body somites bear three, four and five annuli respectively"

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Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pontobdellinae Llewellyn, 1966. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724622 on 2025-06-04

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Pontobdellinae Llewellyn, 1966. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724622 on 2025-06-04

Taxonomic edit history

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2013-04-08 01:59:45Z

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Kolb, Jürgen

2025-03-31 01:52:27Z

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Read, Geoffrey

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original description 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.
page(s): 404; note: "conspicuously tuberculate marine leeches may conveniently be separated in a new subfamily Pontobdellinae containing the genera Stibarobdella, Pontobdella, and Pentabdella gen. nov., for species in wh...

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context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru. Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2), jul-dic: 301-375. [details] Available for editors

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] Available for editors

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