Hirudinidae is a family of
leeches
Leeches are segmented parasitism, parasitic or Predation, predatory worms that comprise the Class (biology), subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the Oligochaeta, oligochaetes, which include the earthwor ...
belonging to the order
Arhynchobdellida.
Genera
The ''Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera''
IRMNG
taxon details: Hirudinidae (retrieved 28 August 2021) lists:
# '' Hirudo'' Linnaeus, 1758
# '' Limnatis'' Moquin-Tandon, 1827
# '' Limnobdella'' Blanchard, 1893
# '' Ornithobdella'' Benham, 1909
# '' Pintobdella'' Caballero, 1937
# ''Poecilobdella
''Poecilobdella''Blanchard (1893) ''Bol. Mus. Zool. Anat. comp. Torino'', 8, no. 145. is a genus of Asian leech
Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are c ...
'' Blanchard, 1893
;Genera of uncertain placement:
# '' Asiaticobdella'' Richardson, 1969
# '' Aulastoma'' Moquin-Tandon, 1827
# '' Dinobdella'' Moore, 1927
# '' Diplobdella'' Moore, 1902
# '' Hexabdella'' Verrill, 1872
# '' Myxobdella'' Oka, 1917
# '' Oxyptychus'' Grube, 1850
# '' Potamobdella'' Caballero
References
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Annelid families
Leeches