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Macrobdellidae
Macrobdellidae is a family of Nearctic leeches belonging to the order Arhynchobdellida Arhynchobdellida, the proboscisless leeches, are a monophyletic order of leeches. They are defined by the lack of the protrusible proboscis that defines their sister taxon, the Rhynchobdellida.Uttam, Suneha, and Seema Langer.Distribution and Ide .... Genera The ''Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera'' taxon details: Macrobdellidae (retrieved 28 August 2021) lists: # '' Macrobdella'' Verrill, 1872 # '' Philobdella'' Verrill, 1874 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q60594220[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philobdella
''Philobdella''Verrill AE (1874) Synopsis of North American freshwater leeches. ''United States Fisheries Commission Report for 1872–73, Pt. 2.'' 666–689. is a genus of Nearctic leeches belonging to the family Macrobdellidae. Species ITIS includes the following: # ''Philobdella floridana'' (Verrill, 1874) # ''Philobdella gracilis ''Philobdella''Verrill AE (1874) Synopsis of North American freshwater leeches. ''United States Fisheries Commission Report for 1872–73, Pt. 2.'' 666–689. is a genus of Nearctic leeches belonging to the family Macrobdellidae. Species ITIS in ...'' Moore, 1901Moore JP (1901) Descriptions of two new leeches from Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 2, 211–222. References External links * {{Taxonbar, from=Q5142772 Annelid genera Leeches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arhynchobdellida
Arhynchobdellida, the proboscisless leeches, are a monophyletic order of leeches. They are defined by the lack of the protrusible proboscis that defines their sister taxon, the Rhynchobdellida.Uttam, Suneha, and Seema Langer.Distribution and Identification key for species of freshwater leech genus Erpobdella Blainville, 1818 (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Erpobdelliformes: Erpobdellidae)."/ref> Arhynchobdellida is a diverse order, comprimising both aquatic and terrestrial, besides sanguivorous and predatory, leeches. The order is divided into two suborders, Erpobdelliformes and Hirudiniformes (sometimes also called the Pharyngobdelliformes and Gnathobdelliformes, respectively). Taxonomy Historically, the Arhynchobdellida were split into two orders, the Gnathobdellida and the Pharyngobdellida. The Gnathobdellida were jawed and carnivorous of parasitic while the Pharyngobdellida were jawless and carnivorous. Current taxonomy accepts the order Arhynchobdellida and divides into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrobdella
''Macrobdella'' is a genus of leeches native to freshwater ecosystems of North America, especially Canada, Mexico, and the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie .... The genus is commonly referred to as North American medicinal leeches. Species * '' Macrobdella decora'' (Say, 1824) * '' Macrobdella diplotertia'' Meyer, 1975 * ''Macrobdella'' ''ditetra'' Moore, 1953 * '' Macrobdella mimicus'' Phillips, Salas-Montiel, Kvist, Oceguera-Figueroa, 2019 * ''Macrobdella'' ''sestertia'' Whitman, 1886 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5169437 Leeches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nearctic
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America that are not in the Nearctic realm are Eastern Mexico, Southern Florida, coastal Central Florida, Central America, and the Caribbean islands, which, together with South America, are part of the Neotropical realm. Major ecological regions The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) divides the Nearctic into four bioregions, defined as "geographic clusters of ecoregions that may span several habitat types, but have strong biogeographic affinities, particularly at taxonomic levels higher than the species level (genus, family)." Canadian Shield The Canadian Shield bioregion extends across the northern portion of the continent, from the Aleutian Islands to Newfoundland. It includes the Nearctic's Arctic Tundra and Boreal forest ecoregions. In terms of flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leech
Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular segmented bodies that can lengthen and contract. Both groups are hermaphrodites and have a clitellum, but leeches typically differ from the oligochaetes in having suckers at both ends and in having ring markings that do not correspond with their internal segmentation. The body is muscular and relatively solid, and the coelom, the spacious body cavity found in other annelids, is reduced to small channels. The majority of leeches live in freshwater habitats, while some species can be found in terrestrial or marine environments. The best-known species, such as the medicinal leech, ''Hirudo medicinalis'', are hematophagous, attaching themselves to a host with a sucker and feeding on blood, having first secreted the peptide hirudin to prevent the blood from c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annelid Families
The annelids (Annelida , from Latin ', "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches. The species exist in and have adapted to various ecologies – some in marine environments as distinct as tidal zones and hydrothermal vents, others in fresh water, and yet others in moist terrestrial environments. The Annelids are bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic, coelomate, invertebrate organisms. They also have parapodia for locomotion. Most textbooks still use the traditional division into polychaetes (almost all marine), oligochaetes (which include earthworms) and leech-like species. Cladistic research since 1997 has radically changed this scheme, viewing leeches as a sub-group of oligochaetes and oligochaetes as a sub-group of polychaetes. In addition, the Pogonophora, Echiura and Sipuncula, previously regarded as separate phyla, are now regarded as sub-groups of polycha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
