Chtonobdella limbata

Chtonobdella limbata
A specimen in Budderoo National Park, New South Wales.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Clade:	Pleistoannelida
Clade:	Sedentaria
Class:	Clitellata
Subclass:	Hirudinea
Order:	Arhynchobdellida
Family:	Haemadipsidae
Genus:	Chtonobdella
Species:	C. limbata
Binomial name
Chtonobdella limbata (Grube, 1866)
Synonyms [1]
Hirudo limbataGrube, 1866 Haemadipsa limbata(Grube, 1866) Geobdelle limbataWhitman, 1886

Chtonobdella limbata is a species of blood sucking leech, found in New South Wales, Australia; ^{[2] [3]} it belongs to the genus Chtonobdella and may be called the Australian bush leech. ^[4]

Classification

Chtonobdella limbata is the type species for the genus Chtonobdella . ^[5] Adolph Eduard Grube published about the species somewhat ambiguously under the name Hirudo limbata but with "the suggestion of Chtonobdella as a new genus". Confusingly, Grube later referred to the species again as H. limbata_, a name kept by some other scholars. ^[6]

Habitat

Chtonobdella limbata is a common species of subtropical rainforest habitat, ^[7] but has a patchy distribution, preferring spots that have been wettened by seepage in canopy forest without underbrush. These spots usually have more stable moisture levels than the forest floor. ^[8]

References

1. "Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique". t.10 (1917). Paris: Masson. 1917.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. "Alphabetical List of Australian and New Zealand Leech Species". Leeches Species List. Invertebrate US.
3. "Chtonobdella limbata". Australia's species. Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
4. the Australian Museum advised that the local leech species at Sydney is Chtonobdella limbata May 9, 2012
5. The Zoologist : a monthly journal of natural history. Ser. 4. Vol. 13. London. 1909.
6. Richardson, Lawrence R. (1967). "An Annotated List of Australian Leeches". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Vol. v.92=no.413-415 (1967-1968). Sydney: Linnean Society of New South Wales.
7. Williams, Geoff (2020-09-01). The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests. Csiro Publishing. ISBN   978-1-4863-1293-1.
8. The Australian zoologist. Vol. v.14 (1967-1968). Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. 1967.