WoRMS name details
Pontobdella loricata Harding, 1924
370741 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370741)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Harding, W. A. (1924). XLIX. Descriptions of some new leeches from India, Burma & Ceylon. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 14(9): 489-499., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222932408633143 [details] Available for editors 
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Note Harding only states that "taken at Station 233...
Type locality Harding only states that "taken at Station 233 Marine Survey of India. No host is recorded." Thus we can only infer the location was marine, and the host was a marine fish or a motile large marine invertebrate. [details]
WoRMS (2025). Pontobdella loricata Harding, 1924. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370741 on 2025-10-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Harding, W. A. (1924). XLIX. Descriptions of some new leeches from India, Burma & Ceylon. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 14(9): 489-499., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222932408633143 [details] Available for editors [request]
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source of synonymy
Furiness, Sharon; Williams, Julianne I.; Nagasawa, Kazuya; Burreson, Eugene M. (2007). A collection of fish leeches (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from Japan and surrounding waters, including redescriptions of three species. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 93(4): 875-83., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-979R1.1
page(s): 881; note: to junior synonymy under Stibarobdella moorei, now Pontobdella moorei [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 881; note: to junior synonymy under Stibarobdella moorei, now Pontobdella moorei [details] Available for editors
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Type locality Harding only states that "taken at Station 233 Marine Survey of India. No host is recorded." Thus we can only infer the location was marine, and the host was a marine fish or a motile large marine invertebrate. [details]
