Glossiphonia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rhynchobdellida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Annelida Classis: Clitellata Subclassis: Hirudinea Infraclassis: Euhirudinea Ordo: Rhynchobdellida

Familia: Glossiphoniidae
Subfamilia: Glossiphoniinae
Genus: Glossiphonia
Species: G. complanata – G. concolor – G. paludosa – G. verrucata

Name

• Glossiphonia Johnson, 1816: 25

Synonyms

• Boreobdella Johansson, 1929: 144

References

• Johnson, James R. 1816: A Treatise on the Medicinal Leech; Including its Medical and Natural History; also Remarks upon the Diseases, Preservation and Management of Leeches. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London.: 147 pp.

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• Jueg, U. & Michalik, P. 2018. Lost and found – Fritz Müller´s type material of Glossiphonia verrucata (Fr. Müller, 1844) (Hirudinida, Glossiphoniidae) with notes on the leech fauna of lake Tegel in Berlin (Germany). Evolutionary Systematics, 2: 163–168. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.2.30793 Reference page. 
• Moser, W.E. et al. 2012: Molecular characterization of Glossiphonia elegans (Verrill, 1872) (Glossiphoniidae: Hirudinida) from its type locality, West River, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA. Zootaxa, 3195: 57–60. Preview

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus