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

Heptacyclus Vasileyev, 1939

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Malmiana Strand, 1942 synonym

Children

Heptacyclus brunneus (Johansson, 1896)
Heptacyclus myoxocephali Srivastava, 1966

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: ムチウオビル属

Literature

original description

Vasileyev, E. A. (also 'Vasiliev', 'Vasilyev'). (1939). The Ichthyobdellidae of the Far East. Trudy Karelskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta, Biology Series, Petrozavudsk. 1: 25-68.

basis of record

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.

Genbank

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Heptacyclus Vasileyev, 1939. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154889

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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2023-10-25 by Geoffrey Read

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