Genus of annelids
Placobdelloides genus of glossophoniid leeches.[ 1]
Description
Species of Placobdelloides lack a jaw and usually feed with a protrusible proboscis; they are predacious or sanguivorous, or both, on a variety of prey such as shrimps, waterfowl, fish, amphibians, turtles, crocodiles or mammals.[ 2]
Species
The genus includes 17 species found worldwide: [ 2] [ 3]
Placobdelloides bancrofti (Best, 1931) Placobdelloides bdellae (Ingram, 1957) Placobdelloides emydae (Harding, 1924) Placobdelloides fimbriata (Johansson, 1909) Placobdelloides fulva (Harding, 1921) Placobdelloides horai (Baugh, 1960) Placobdelloides indica (Baugh, 1960) Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi (Johansson, 1909) Placobdelloides maorica (Benham, 1907) Placobdelloides multistriata (Johansson, 1909) Placobdelloides octostriata (Grube, 1866) Placobdelloides okadai (Oka, 1925) Placobdelloides okai (Soós, 1969) Placobdelloides siamensis (Oka, 1917) Placobdelloides sirikanchanae Trivalairat, Chiangkul & Purivirojkul, 2019 Placobdelloides stellapapillosa Goverdich et al., 2002 Placobdelloides undulata (Harding, 1924)
References
^ Sawyer, Roy T. (1986). Leech Biology and Behaviour. Volume II: Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics ISBN 978-0-19-857622-8 ^ a b Chiangkul, Krittiya; Trivalairat, Poramad; Purivirojkul, Watchariya (2018). "Redescription of the Siamese shield leech Placobdelloides siamensis with new host species and geographic range" . Parasite . 25 : 56. doi :10.1051/parasite/2018056 . ISSN 1776-1042 . PMC 6254108 PMID 30474597 . ^ 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): 1– 24. doi :10.3897/zookeys.882.35229 ISSN 1313-2970 . PMC 6821855 PMID 31686947 .
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