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URMO taxon detailsPontobdella Leach, 1815
 116943 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116943)
accepted
Genus
Hirudo muricata Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)
Stibarobdella Leigh-Sharpe, 1925 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
marine
feminine
Leach, W. E. (1815). The Zoological Miscellany; Being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals. <em>R.P. Nodder, London.</em> 2: 1-154, pls. 61-120., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28685302
page(s): 9; note: as the 'sea leech' [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pontobdella Leach, 1815. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116943 on 2025-05-15
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Pontobdella Leach, 1815. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116943 on 2025-05-15
Date action by
original description
Leach, W. E. (1815). The Zoological Miscellany; Being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals. <em>R.P. Nodder, London.</em> 2: 1-154, pls. 61-120., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28685302
page(s): 9; note: as the 'sea leech' [details] original description (of Stibarobdella Leigh-Sharpe, 1925) Leigh-Sharpe, W. H. (1925). Stibarobdella superba n. g. et sp. A new ichthyobdellid leech. <em>Parasitology.</em> 17: 417-420, 3 figures. [details] taxonomy source Ruiz-Escobar, Fernando; Torres-Carrera, Gerardo; Islas-Villanueva, Valentina; Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro. (2024). Molecular Phylogeny of the Leech Genus Pontobdella (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) with Notes on Pontobdella californiana and Pontobdella macrothela. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 110(3): 186�194., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/23-122 [details] Available for editors  additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors additional source van der Land, J. (2001). Hirudinea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 234-235 (look up in IMIS) note: checklist listing [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Stibarobdella Leigh-Sharpe, 1925)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pontobdella) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stibarobdella) (from synonym Stibarobdella Leigh-Sharpe, 1925) To Genbank (from synonym Stibarobdella Leigh-Sharpe, 1925) To Genbank To NMNH Extant Collection (Stibarobdella sp. USNM 133139 lateral view) (from synonym Stibarobdella Leigh-Sharpe, 1925) To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 098145) To ITIS |
