identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
C2111BBCBAFA54079044E9E754E30456.text	C2111BBCBAFA54079044E9E754E30456.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Shibabdella Tang & Liu & Xiang & Li & Li & Zou & Nakano 2025	<div><p>Genus Shibabdella Tang &amp; Liu gen. nov.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Non – bloodsucking aquatic leech. Medium-sized, lacking spots and stripes. One myognath at the anterior end of each pharyngeal ridge. Accessory copulatory pores absent. Atrium spherical, without pre-atrial loop. Ovisacs reverse-folded. Gonopores separated by six annuli, with male gonopore in somite XII c 2 / c 3 and female gonopore in somite XII c 11 / c 12. Nephridiopores: fifteen pairs. Post-anal annuli present.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Shibabdella gen. nov. belongs to the family Salifidae because it lacks a pre-atrial loop and has a myognath at the anteriority in each of three pharyngeal ridges. Compared to the genera Barbronia and Dineta, which have one pair of accessory copulatory pores and three pairs of eyespots, this new genus lacks accessory copulatory pores and eyespots. Compared to the genera Odontobdella and Sinodontobdella, which have blocky coiled ovisacs and three pairs of large columnar pharyngeal stylets, Shibabdella gen. nov. has reverse-folded ovisacs and lamellar myognaths. Compared to the genus Salifa, which has gastropores and a pair of conspicuous genital atrium, this new genus has the nephridiopores and lacks the obvious angle of genital atrium. Moreover, because the ovisacs of Shibabdella gen. nov. reach somite XXI and the diameter of caudal sucker is approximately the maximum body width, it is different from ovisacs of Mimobdella, which are as long as somite XXII and the diameter of caudal sucker is only half of the maximum body width.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2111BBCBAFA54079044E9E754E30456	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Tang, Yan;Liu, Zhixiao;Xiang, Haiyang;Li, Linbei;Li, Shi;Zou, Yazhen;Nakano, Takafumi	Tang, Yan, Liu, Zhixiao, Xiang, Haiyang, Li, Linbei, Li, Shi, Zou, Yazhen, Nakano, Takafumi (2025): A new genus of non-bloodsucking aquatic cave leeches in the family Salifidae Johansson, 1909 (Erpobdelliformes) from the Wuling Mountains of Central China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (3): 1113-1122, DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.152740
5D4B91CAD4E3567699C7B8318E0766FF.text	5D4B91CAD4E3567699C7B8318E0766FF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Shibabdella wulingensis Tang & Liu 2025	<div><p>Shibabdella wulingensis Tang &amp; Liu, gen. nov. et sp. nov.</p><p>Specimen materials.</p><p>Holotype • HNHY 01; adult; body length 49.19 mm, maximum body width 4.37 mm, diameter of oral sucker 1.04 mm, diameter of caudal sucker 4.11 mm; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.4915&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=28.380167" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.4915/lat 28.380167)">Shibadong Cave</a>, Gaoming Mountain, Shibadong Village, Huayuan County, Hunan Province, China (28°22.81'N, 109°29.49'E, 622.13 m); collected August 18, 2024 . Paratypes • 10 specimens, HNHY 02 – HNHY 11, Shibadong Cave, Gaoming Mountain, Shibadong Village, Huayuan County, Hunan Province, China; collected between September 2024 and January 2025, respectively .</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The genus name Shibabdella gen. nov. is a combination of “ Shiba ” and “ bdella. ” The first element represents the Shibadong Cave, the type locality of the type species. The specific name of the type species, “ wulingensis, ” means that the type species was first found in the Wuling Mountains of central China.</p><p>Ecology.</p><p>This species usually inhabits still waters of the cave at depths of 0.02–0.16 m. The water bottom is normally covered with 0.02–0.10 m of clay and sandy sediments, as well as bat feces, Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat ( Leopoldamys edwardsi) feces, and insect larvae.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Body flat and cylindrical, creamy or pinkish – white, without spots and stripes. One full somite consists of nine annuli, b 1 (c 1 = c 2) = b 2 (c 3 = c 4) &lt;a 2&gt; b 5 (c 9 = c 10)&gt; b 6 (c 11 = c 12) in adults, while in juveniles, c 1 &lt;c 2 = b 2 (c 3 = c 4) &lt;a 2&gt; c 9&gt; c 10 = b 6 (c 11 = c 12). Eyespots undetectable. Tubular pharynx, reaching to XIV c 1 – c 4, anteriorly with 3 myognaths. Intestine occupies a total of 22 annuli, with a folded inner wall and a diameter significantly larger than crop. Absence of the obvious angle of genital atrium. Ovisacs strip-shaped, folding in the middle of somite XXI and then reversing the coiling, which extends to somite XIX, the distance from the blind end to the female gonopore about 1 / 3 of the body length.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D4B91CAD4E3567699C7B8318E0766FF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Tang, Yan;Liu, Zhixiao;Xiang, Haiyang;Li, Linbei;Li, Shi;Zou, Yazhen;Nakano, Takafumi	Tang, Yan, Liu, Zhixiao, Xiang, Haiyang, Li, Linbei, Li, Shi, Zou, Yazhen, Nakano, Takafumi (2025): A new genus of non-bloodsucking aquatic cave leeches in the family Salifidae Johansson, 1909 (Erpobdelliformes) from the Wuling Mountains of Central China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (3): 1113-1122, DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.152740
