URMO name detailsPontobdella benhami Richardson, 1950
370667 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370667)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Species
marine,
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 
URMO (2025). Pontobdella benhami Richardson, 1950. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370667 on 2025-09-11
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Pontobdella benhami Richardson, 1950. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370667 on 2025-09-11
Date action by
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 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] 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 a synonymy now superseded by Burreson 2020, who places it as a synonym of Pontobdella leucothela Schmarda [details] Available for editors source of synonymy Burreson, Eugene M. (2020).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  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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