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 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 sibirica Kaygorodova, 2024 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