Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Hirudinea > Infraclass Euhirudinea > Order Rhynchobdellida > Family Piscicolidae > Subfamily Pontobdellinae > Genus Pontobdella

Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pontobdella*	Leach, 1815	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: roggenbloedzuiger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: taggvårtiga spoligeln

Literature

basis of record	Llewellyn, L. C. (1966). Pontobdellinae (Piscicolidae : Hirudinea) in the British Museum (Natural History) with a review of the subfamily. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool.), 14(7), 389-439.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	Sawyer, R.T. 1986. Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 375 p.
additional source	UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
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

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (191 publications)
GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Kolb, J. (2014). Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116986