''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
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 t ...
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 bodie ...
es belonging to the family
Macrobdellidae.
Species
ITIS includes the following:
# ''
Philobdella floridana''
(Verrill, 1874)[
# '' Philobdella gracilis'' Moore, 1901][Moore JP (1901) Descriptions of two new leeches from Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 2, 211–222.]
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Annelid genera
Leeches