Erpobdella

Erpobdella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Class:	Clitellata
Subclass:	Hirudinea
Order:	Arhynchobdellida
Suborder:	Erpobdelliformes
Family:	Erpobdellidae
Genus:	Erpobdella; de Blainville, 1818
Type species
	Hirudo octoculata; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Croatobranchus Kerovec, Kučinić & Jalžic, 1999; Dina R. Blanchard, 1892; Mooreobdella Pawlowski, 1955; Nephelopsis Verrill, 1872; Semiscolecides Augener, 1930; Trocheta Dutrochet, 1817 ;

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.^[2]^[1]

Species

The genus includes species previously classified under the genera Croatobranchus, Dina, Mooreobdella, Trocheta and Nephelopsis. These were synonymized into Erpobdella by Sidall (2002) after morphogenetic analysis. There are 37 currently accepted species:^[1]

Erpobdella absoloni (Johansson, 1913)
Erpobdella anoculata (Moore, 1898)
Erpobdella apathyi (Gedroyc, 1916)
Erpobdella bucera (Moore, 1953)
Erpobdella bykowski (Gedroyc, 1913)
Erpobdella concolor Annandale, 1913
Erpobdella costalis Sawyer & Shelley, 1976
Erpobdella dubia (Moore & Meyer, 1951)
Erpobdella eturpshem (Sket, 1989)
Erpobdella fervida (Verrill, 1874)
Erpobdella japonica (Pawlowski, 1952)
Erpobdella johanssoni (Johansson, 1927)
Erpobdella krasense (Sket, 1968)
Erpobdella krilata (Sket, 1989)
Erpobdella lahontana Hovingh & Klemm, 2000
Erpobdella latestriata (Neubert & Nesemann, 1995)
Erpobdella lineata (Müller, 1774)
Erpobdella maoriana (Mason, 1976)
Erpobdella mauchi Nesemann, 1995
Erpobdella melanostoma (Sawyer & Shelley, 1976)
Erpobdella mestrovi (Kerovec, Kučinić & Jalžić, 1999)
Erpobdella microstoma (Moore, 1901)
Erpobdella monostriata (Gedroyc, 1916)
Erpobdella nigricolis (Brandes, 1900)
Erpobdella obscura (Verrill, 1872)
Erpobdella octoculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Erpobdella parva (Moore, 1912)
Erpobdella punctata (Leidy, 1870)
Erpobdella quaternaria (Moore, 1930)
Erpobdella ratschaensis (Kobakhidze, 1958)
Erpobdella stschegolewi Lukin & Epshtein, 1950
Erpobdella subviridis (Dutrochet, 1817)
Erpobdella svilesta (Sket, 1989)
Erpobdella testacea (Savigny, 1820)
Erpobdella tetragon (Sawyer & Shelley, 1976)
Erpobdella triannulata Moore, 1908
Erpobdella xiangjiangensis (Yang, 1983)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Mark E. Siddall (2002). "Phylogeny of the leech family Erpobdellidae (Hirudinida : Oligochaeta)" (PDF). Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 1–6.
^ Douglas Grant Smith (2001). "Annelida". Pennak's freshwater invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea (4th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 269–313. ISBN 978-0-471-35837-4.

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[siddall-1] Mark E. Siddall (2002). "Phylogeny of the leech family Erpobdellidae (Hirudinida : Oligochaeta)" (PDF). Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 1–6.

[2] Douglas Grant Smith (2001). "Annelida". Pennak's freshwater invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea (4th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 269–313. ISBN 978-0-471-35837-4.

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