UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO)

URMO taxon details

Hirudiniformes

AphiaID

765256 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:765256)

Classification

Authority

Caballero, 1952

Status

accepted

Rank

Suborder

Parent

Arhynchobdellida

Direct children (1)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Family Hirudinidae Whitman, 1886

Environment

fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Caballero, Eduardo yC. (1952). Sanguijuelas de Mexico. XVIII. Presencia de Macrobdella decora (Say, 1824) Verrill, 1872, en el norte del pais, y una nueva desinencia para los ordenes de Hirudinea. <em>Anales del Instituto Biologia UNAM.</em> 23 (1-2): 203-209., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php?journal=anales&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=938
page(s): 208; note: Ordo: Hirudiformes n.nom. (= Gnathobdellida Vaillant, 1890) [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hirudiniformes. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=765256 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Hirudiniformes. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=765256 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-06-12 00:41:59Z

created

Kolb, J�rgen

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original description Caballero, Eduardo yC. (1952). Sanguijuelas de Mexico. XVIII. Presencia de Macrobdella decora (Say, 1824) Verrill, 1872, en el norte del pais, y una nueva desinencia para los ordenes de Hirudinea. <em>Anales del Instituto Biologia UNAM.</em> 23 (1-2): 203-209., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php?journal=anales&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=938
page(s): 208; note: Ordo: Hirudiformes n.nom. (= Gnathobdellida Vaillant, 1890) [details] Available for editors

basis of record Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p.
note: Sawyer uses 'Hirudiniformes' as a Suborder and credits the name to Caballero, but Caballero used the spelling Hirudiformes and at Order level [details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hirudiniformes)
To Genbank
To ITIS