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Placobdella
Sign in to savePlacobdella is a genus of leeches in the family Glossiphoniidae. Species can grow up to 6.5 cm in length, have extremely close eyes and mouths located on the rim or near the anterior (front) sucker.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassClitellata
- OrderRhynchobdellida
- FamilyGlossiphoniidae
Habitatfreshwater
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 195
- With media
- 81
- Family
- Glossiphoniidae
- Collections
- NCSM, CHAS, YPM, CMN, USNM, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Glossiphoniidae
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- taxon name
- Placobdella
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Placobdella
- topic's main category
- Category:Placobdella
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Encyclopedic overview
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Placobdella is a genus of leeches in the family Glossiphoniidae. Species can grow up to 6.5 cm in length, have extremely close eyes and mouths located on the rim or near the anterior (front) sucker.
The genus has an almost cosmopolitan distribution.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Placobdella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.