Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Hirudinea > Infraclass Euhirudinea > Order Rhynchobdellida > Family Ozobranchidae

Ozobranchus Quatrefages, 1852

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudobranchellion*	Apáthy, 1890	synonym

Children

Ozobranchus margoi (Apáthy, 1890)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: エラビル属

Literature

original description	Quatrefages, Armand de. (1852). Études sur les types inferieurs de l'embranchement des Annelés. Mémoire sur le Branchellion de d'Orbigny. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Paris. Partie Zoologique. (Series 3) 18: 279-328.
additional source	Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p.
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Hirudinea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 234-235
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
taxonomy source	Richardson, Laurence R. (1969). The family Ozobranchidae redefined, and a novel ozobranchiform leech from Murray River turtles (class Hirudinoidea; order Rhynchobdelliformes). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 91: 61-80.
taxonomy source	Raj, P. J. Sanjeeva. (1954). A synopsis of the species of the genus Ozobranchus (de Quatrefages 1852) Hirudinea-Annelida. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 52: 475-480.