Parapraobdella, Phillips & Oosthuizen & Siddall, 2011

Phillips, Anna J., Oosthuizen, J. H. & Siddall, Mark E., 2011, Redescription, phylogenetic placement, and taxonomic reassignment of Mesobdella lineata (Sciacchitano, 1959) (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida), American Museum Novitates 2011 (3711), pp. 1-12 : 6

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3711.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9EC77EDE-AC8D-42B6-ADC0-E6CB0C49B8F7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5454898
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B247ED5F-9074-4533-91A4-7B98C0B6BFD6
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:B247ED5F-9074-4533-91A4-7B98C0B6BFD6
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Parapraobdella
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Parapraobdella , new genus

Figures 1–3

DESCRIPTION: Trignathous, monostichodont. Longitudinal furrow in dorsal lip of oral sucker. Complete somite five-annulate. Eyespots dorsal, five pair in broad arch. Crop ceca simple with one pair of ceca per somite, postceca extending bilaterally. Intestine simple, acecate. Anus between last annulus and caudal sucker. Caudal sucker wider than four most posterior somites of body. Reproductive organs micromorphic. Nephridia ventral and bilateral in all cases.

TYPE SPECIES: Parapraobdella lineata ( Sciacchitano, 1959)

ETYMOLOGY: From para (Greek for “alongside”), because it is close to the genus Praobdella .