UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO)

URMO taxon details

Piscicola Blainville, 1818

AphiaID

116941 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116941)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Piscicolidae Johnston, 1865

Parent

Piscicolinae Johnston, 1865

Original name

Piscicola Blainville, 1818

Direct children (6)

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Species Piscicola caeca Kaburaki, 1921
Species Piscicola geometra (Linnaeus, 1761)
Species Piscicola magna Yang Tong, 1984
Species Piscicola zebra Moore, 1898
Species Piscicola nodulifera Malm, 1863 accepted as Calliobdella nodulifera (Malm, 1863) (Synonym)
Species Piscicola rectangulata Levinsen, 1882 accepted as Levinsenia rectangulata (Levinsen, 1882) accepted as Beringobdella rectangulata (Levinsen, 1881) (Synonym)

Environment

~~marine~~, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

URMO (2021). Piscicola Blainville, 1818. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116941 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Piscicola Blainville, 1818. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116941 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2014-05-28 01:05:31Z

changed

Kolb, J�rgen

2022-08-22 02:01:18Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

[taxonomic tree]

basis of record 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]

additional source Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p. [details]

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. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To NMNH Extant Collection (WRM USNM 40000 Card.)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (WRM USNM 40000 Card.)

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