WoRMS name details
Pontobdella benhami Richardson, 1950
370667 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370667)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Richardson, L. R. (1950). Studies on New Zealand Hirudinea : Part I. Pontobdella benhami n. sp. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 78(1): 97-100.
page(s): 98, text figures1-4; note: Taken in trawls from Dunedin and from Wellington. Type specimen not specified. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 98, text figures1-4; note: Taken in trawls from Dunedin and from Wellington. Type specimen not specified. [details] Available for editors
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Note New Zealand, with specimens from Dunedin and...
Type locality New Zealand, with specimens from Dunedin and Wellington trawling fishing operations. Possibly off Wellington S coast is the type locality (fide Burreson) [details]
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Nomenclature
original description
Richardson, L. R. (1950). Studies on New Zealand Hirudinea : Part I. Pontobdella benhami n. sp. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 78(1): 97-100.
page(s): 98, text figures1-4; note: Taken in trawls from Dunedin and from Wellington. Type specimen not specified. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 98, text figures1-4; note: Taken in trawls from Dunedin and from Wellington. Type specimen not specified. [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
source of synonymy
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): 410; note: Synonymy in discussion text flow to Stibarobdella macrothela. a synonymy now superseded by Burreson 2020, who places it as a synonym of Pontobdella leucothela Schmarda [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy Burreson, Eugene M. (2020). Marine and estuarine leeches (Hirudinida : Ozobranchidae and Piscicolidae) of Australia and New Zealand with a key to the species. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 34(3): 235-259., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IS19048
page(s): 245, figures 15A, 15E, 24A; note: placed as a new synonym of Pontobdella leucothela, Schmarda. along with six other species names. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 410; note: Synonymy in discussion text flow to Stibarobdella macrothela. a synonymy now superseded by Burreson 2020, who places it as a synonym of Pontobdella leucothela Schmarda [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Burreson, Eugene M. (2020). Marine and estuarine leeches (Hirudinida : Ozobranchidae and Piscicolidae) of Australia and New Zealand with a key to the species. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 34(3): 235-259., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IS19048
page(s): 245, figures 15A, 15E, 24A; note: placed as a new synonym of Pontobdella leucothela, Schmarda. along with six other species names. [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/
note: checklist listing [details]
note: checklist listing [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Type locality New Zealand, with specimens from Dunedin and Wellington trawling fishing operations. Possibly off Wellington S coast is the type locality (fide Burreson) [details]Type specimen Although Richardson (1950) does not designate a type, Burreson (2020) found that a specimen at Te Papa, MNZ, registered as ZW221, and from Wellington, Cook Strait, no host recorded, was recorded as the holotype of P. benhami in the Te Papa documentation, This may or may not be correct as there were several original specimens. Burreson states that it is " labelled ‘Type’ in Richardson’s hand, but apparent post hoc labelling must be inferior to designation in print, and a type is not necessarily a holotype. [details]
