Placobdelloides Sawyer, 1986

Trivalairat, Poramad, Chiangkul, Krittiya & Purivirojkul, Watchariya, 2019, Placobdelloides sirikanchanae sp. nov., a new species of glossiphoniid leech and a parasite of turtles from lower southern Thailand (Hirudinea, Rhynchobdellida), ZooKeys 882, pp. 1-24 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.882.35229

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FD9F8BCE-1DCD-48F6-9B6B-B48F90FEA0CF

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A3220BF3-D88C-577F-99EA-6CE703104F1D

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scientific name

Placobdelloides Sawyer, 1986
status

 

Placobdelloides Sawyer, 1986

Type species.

Placobdelloides multistriata (Johansson, 1909) by original designation.

Genus diagnosis.

eyes one pair, esophageal organ, crop caeca seven pairs, mouth pore terminal ( Oosthuizen 1979).

Genus distribution.

Placobdelloides species can be found in Africa ( P. fimbriata (Johansson, 1909); P. jaegerskioeldi (Johansson, 1909); P. multistriata (Johansson, 1909)), Australia and United States, eastward to India ( P. fulva (Harding, 1924); P. emydae (Harding, 1920); P. undulata (Harding, 1924); P. horai (Baugh, 1960); P. indica (Baugh, 1960)), Southeast Asia ( P. siamensis in China and Thailand; P. okadai (Oka, 1925) in China; P. okai ( Soós, 1969); P. stellapapillosa Govedich et al., 2002 in Malaysia and Singapore), and throughout Australia and New Zealand ( P. octostriata (Grube, 1866); P. maorica (Benham, 1907); P. bancrofti (Best, 1931); P. bdellae (Ingram, 1957)).