UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO)

URMO name details

Abranchus Johansson, 1896

AphiaID

370701 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370701)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (Junior to Abranchus both in Bo�� 1824 and Harlan 1825)

Accepted name

Oceanobdella Caballero, 1956

Rank

Genus

Parent

Platybdellinae Epshtein, 1970

Original name

Abranchus Johansson, 1896

Direct children (3)

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Species Abranchus blenni Knight-Jones, 1940 accepted as Oceanobdella blennii (Knight-Jones, 1940) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded original combination for generic homonymy)
Species Abranchus brunneus Johansson, 1896 accepted as Heptacyclus brunneus (Johansson, 1896) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded original combination for generic homonymy)
Species Abranchus microstomus Johansson, 1896 accepted as Oceanobdella microstoma (Johansson, 1896) (superseded original combination for generic homonymy)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Johansson, Ludvig. (1896). Bidrag till k�nnedomen om Sveriges ichthyobdellider. <em>[book].</em> 1-121, ten plates, Upsala nya tidnings aktiebolags tr., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1094275
page(s): 31 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Abranchus Johansson, 1896. 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=370701 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Abranchus Johansson, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370701 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-11-28 06:40:21Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2014-06-12 00:41:59Z

changed

Kolb, J�rgen

2024-07-21 23:04:04Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

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Sources (3)

original description Johansson, Ludvig. (1896). Bidrag till k�nnedomen om Sveriges ichthyobdellider. <em>[book].</em> 1-121, ten plates, Upsala nya tidnings aktiebolags tr., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1094275
page(s): 31 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

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