Placobdelloides

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)

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