| Glossiphonia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Clade: | Sedentaria |
| Class: | Clitellata |
| Subclass: | Hirudinea |
| Order: | Rhynchobdellida |
| Family: | Glossiphoniidae |
| Genus: | Glossiphonia Johnson, 1816 |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Glossiphonia is a genus of Glossiphoniidae. [1]
The genus was described in 1816 by James Rawlins Johnson. [1]
It has cosmopolitan distribution. [2]
Species:
- Glossiphonia complanata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Glossiphonia concolor (Aphathy, 1888)
- Glossiphonia heteroclita (Linnaeus, 1761)
- Glossiphonia lata (Oka, 1910)
- Glossiphonia smaragdina (Oka, 1910)
- Glossiphonia verrucata (Müller, 1844)