Erpobdella
| Erpobdella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Clitellata |
| Subclass: | Hirudinea |
| Order: | Arhynchobdellida |
| Suborder: | Erpobdelliformes |
| Family: | Erpobdellidae |
| Genus: | Erpobdella de Blainville, 1818 |
| Type species | |
| Hirudo octoculata Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Erpobdella is a genus of leeches in the family Erpobdellidae. Members of the genus have three or four pairs of eyes, but never have true jaws, and are typically 20–50 millimetres (0.8–2.0 in) long. All members do not feed on blood, but instead are predators of small aquatic invertebrates, which they often swallow whole.[2][1]
Species
The genus includes species previously classified under the genera Croatobranchus, Dina, Mooreobdella, Trocheta and Nephelopsis. These were synonymized into Erpobdella by Sidall (2002) after morphogenetic analysis. There are 37 currently accepted species:[1]
- Erpobdella absoloni (Johansson, 1913)
- Erpobdella anoculata (Moore, 1898)
- Erpobdella apathyi (Gedroyc, 1916)
- Erpobdella bucera (Moore, 1953)
- Erpobdella bykowski (Gedroyc, 1913)
- Erpobdella concolor Annandale, 1913
- Erpobdella costalis Sawyer & Shelley, 1976
- Erpobdella dubia (Moore & Meyer, 1951)
- Erpobdella eturpshem (Sket, 1989)
- Erpobdella fervida(Verrill, 1874)
- Erpobdella japonica (Pawlowski, 1952)
- Erpobdella johanssoni (Johansson, 1927)
- Erpobdella krasense (Sket, 1968)
- Erpobdella krilata (Sket, 1989)
- Erpobdella lahontana Hovingh & Klemm, 2000
- Erpobdella latestriata (Neubert & Nesemann, 1995)
- Erpobdella lineata (Müller, 1774)
- Erpobdella maoriana (Mason, 1976)
- Erpobdella mauchi Nesemann, 1995
- Erpobdella melanostoma (Sawyer & Shelley, 1976)
- Erpobdella mestrovi (Kerovec, Kučinić & Jalžić, 1999)
- Erpobdella microstoma (Moore, 1901)
- Erpobdella monostriata (Gedroyc, 1916)
- Erpobdella nigricolis (Brandes, 1900)
- Erpobdella obscura (Verrill, 1872)
- Erpobdella octoculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erpobdella parva (Moore, 1912)
- Erpobdella punctata (Leidy, 1870)
- Erpobdella quaternaria (Moore, 1930)
- Erpobdella ratschaensis (Kobakhidze, 1958)
- Erpobdella stschegolewi Lukin & Epshtein, 1950
- Erpobdella subviridis (Dutrochet, 1817)
- Erpobdella svilesta (Sket, 1989)
- Erpobdella testacea (Savigny, 1820)
- Erpobdella tetragon (Sawyer & Shelley, 1976)
- Erpobdella triannulata Moore, 1908
- Erpobdella xiangjiangensis (Yang, 1983)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mark E. Siddall (2002). "Phylogeny of the leech family Erpobdellidae (Hirudinida : Oligochaeta)". Invertebrate Systematics 16: 1–6.
- ↑ Douglas Grant Smith (2001). "Annelida". Pennak's freshwater invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea (4th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 269–313. ISBN 978-0-471-35837-4.