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

Ozobranchus margoi (Apáthy, 1890)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ozobranchus*	Quatrefages, 1852	accepted genus name
*Pseudobranchellion*	Apáthy, 1890	synonym

Species group names

*Pseudobranchellion margoi*	Apáthy, 1890	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: マルゴエラビル

Literature

additional source	Göpper, Byron M.; Voogt, Nina M.; Ganswindt, Andre. (2018). First record of the marine turtle leech (Ozobranchus margoi) on hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the inner granitic Seychelles. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research. 85(1): a1604, 1-10.
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	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	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Burreson, E. M. (2009). Marine Leeches (Hirudinida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 789–792 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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	Selensky, W. D. (1915). Etudes morphologiques et systematiques sur les Hirudinees. I. L'organisation des Ichthyobdellids. 256 pp. (translated Meyer, M. C. & Moore, P., 1955). [book]. 256 pp. Petrograd. (translated Meyer, M. C. & Moore, P., 1955).
biology source	Davies, Ronald W. (1978). The Morphology of Ozobranchus margoi (Apathy) (Hirudinoidea), a Parasite of Marine Turtles. The Journal of Parasitology. 64(6): 1092-1096.