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

Calliobdella van Beneden & Hesse, 1863

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Callobdella*	R. Blanchard, 1894	generic synonym

Children

Calliobdella lophii Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863
Calliobdella mammillata (Malm, 1863)
Calliobdella nodulifera (Malm, 1863)
Calliobdella punctata Beneden & Hesse, 1863

Literature

original description	Beneden, P.J. van & C.E. Hesse. (1863 [1864 title page]). Recherches sur les Bdellodes ou Hirudinées et les Trématodes marins. Memoires de l'Academie royale des sciences de Belgique. 34: 1-59, 2nd part [Trematodes] 60-138.
basis of record	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	Furiness, Sharon; Williams, Julianne I.; Nagasawa, Kazuya; Burreson, Eugene M. (2007). A collection of fish leeches (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from Japan and surrounding waters, including redescriptions of three species. Journal of Parasitology. 93(4): 875-83.
additional source	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).