- Source: Erpobdella
Erpobdella is a genus of leeches in the family Erpobdellidae. Members of the genus have three or four pairs of eyes, but never have true jaws, and are typically 20–50 millimetres (0.8–2.0 in) long. All members do not feed on blood, but instead are predators of small aquatic invertebrates, which they often swallow whole.
Species
The genus includes species previously classified under the genera Croatobranchus, Mooreobdella, Trocheta and Nephelopsis. These were synonymized into Erpobdella by Sidall (2002) after morphogenetic analysis. There are over 30 currently accepted species:
Erpobdella adani (Tessler, Siddall, & Oceguera-Figueroa, 2018)
Erpobdella anoculata (Moore, 1898)
Erpobdella bhatiai Nesemann, 2007
Erpobdella borisi Chichocka et al., 2015
Erpobdella bucera (Moore, 1953)
Erpobdella bykowski (Gedroyc, 1913)
Erpobdella concolor Annandale, 1913
Erpobdella costata Sawyer & Shelley, 1976
Erpobdella dubia (Moore & Meyer, 1951)
Erpobdella fervida (Verrill, 1874)
Erpobdella japonica (Pawlowski, 1952)
Erpobdella johanssoni (Johansson, 1927)
Erpobdella krasense (Sket, 1968)
Erpobdella lahontana Hovingh & Klemm, 2000
Erpobdella luguensis Liu, 1984
Erpobdella melanostoma (Sawyer & Shelley, 1976)
Erpobdella mestrovi (Kerovec, Kučinić & Jalžić, 1999)
Erpobdella mexicana (Dugès, 1872)
Erpobdella microstoma (Moore, 1901)
Erpobdella monostriata (Lindenfeld et Pietruszynski, 1890)
Erpobdella nigricollis (Brandes, 1900)
Erpobdella obscura (Verrill, 1872)
Erpobdella octoculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Erpobdella ochoterenai Caballero, 1932
Erpobdella punctata (Leidy, 1870)
Erpobdella quaternaria (Moore, 1930)
Erpobdella subviridis (Dutrochet, 1817)
Erpobdella testacea (Savigny, 1820)
Erpobdella tetragon (Sawyer & Shelley, 1976)
Erpobdella triannulata Moore, 1908
Erpobdella vilnensis (Liskiewicz, 1925)
Erpobdella wuttkei Kutschera, 2004
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Erpobdella punctata
- Lintah
- Erpobdellidae
- Erpobdella
- Erpobdella mestrovi
- Erpobdella octoculata
- Erpobdella triannulata
- Erpobdella obscura
- Motobdella montezuma
- Velebit caves
- Erpobdella testacea
- Dina parva
- Leech
