Placobdelloides Explained

Placobdelloides is a 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.

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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Sawyer, Roy T. . Leech Biology and Behaviour. Volume II: Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics . 1986 . Clarendon Press . Oxford . 978-0-19-857622-8.
2. Chiangkul. Krittiya. Trivalairat. Poramad. Purivirojkul. Watchariya. Redescription of the Siamese shield leech Placobdelloides siamensis with new host species and geographic range. Parasite. 25. 2018. 56. 1776-1042. 10.1051/parasite/2018056. 30474597. 6254108.
3. Trivalairat. Poramad. Chiangkul. Krittiya. Purivirojkul. Watchariya. Placobdelloides sirikanchanae sp. nov., a new species of glossiphoniid leech and a parasite of turtles from lower southern Thailand (Hirudinea, Rhynchobdellida). ZooKeys. 882. 2019. 1–24. 1313-2970. 10.3897/zookeys.882.35229. 31686947. 6821855. free.