Placobdelloides

Placobdelloides
Placobdelloides siamensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Clade:	Pleistoannelida
Clade:	Sedentaria
Class:	Clitellata
Subclass:	Hirudinea
Order:	Rhynchobdellida
Family:	Glossiphoniidae
Genus:	Placobdelloides Sawyer, 1986

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. ^[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

1. Sawyer, Roy T. (1986). Leech Biology and Behaviour. Volume II: Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN   978-0-19-857622-8.
2. 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.
3. 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.