CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Annelida (phylum) » Clitellata (class) » Rhynchobdellida (order) » Piscicolidae (family)

CAAB Code:	22 307000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Piscicolidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	22 - Annelida Segmented worms
Family:	22 307 Piscicolidae (fish leeches) - show full list
Common Name:	fish leeches
Organism Type:	a fish leech
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified Estuarine
Child Codes:	22 307902 Austrobdella spp. 22 307915 Bdellamaris spp. 22 307903 Branchellion spp. 22 307904 Cryobdella spp. 22 307912 Dollfusobdella spp. 22 307905 Galatheabdella spp. 22 307913 Leporinabdella spp. 22 307906 Mooreobdellina spp. 22 307911 Notobdella spp. 22 307917 Phyllobdellina spp. 22 307907 Pleurobdella spp. 22 307914 Pontobdella spp. 22 307901 Pterobdella spp. 22 307916 Richardsonobdella spp. 22 307909 Trachelobdella spp. 22 307910 Trachelobdellina spp.

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Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:37307aa3-b6b1-4436-935d-56e8f34a7ebe Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2043 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-08-24 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Burreson, E.M., 2020. Marine and estuarine leeches (Hirudinida: Ozobranchidae and Piscicolidae) of Australia and New Zealand with a key to species., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 34: 235-259. . doi.org/10.1071/IS19048 doi:10.1071/IS19048

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