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

Oceanobdella microstoma (Johansson, 1896)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oceanobdella*	Caballero, 1956	accepted genus name
*Abranchus*	Johansson, 1896	synonym

Species group names

*Abranchus microstomus*	Johansson, 1896	junior homonym

Literature

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	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	Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p.
additional source	Khan, R. A.; Meyer, M. C. (1976). Taxonomy and Biology of Some Newfoundland Marine Leeches (Rhynchobdellae: Piscicolidae). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 33(8): 1699-1714.