CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Annelida (phylum) » Clitellata (class) » Arhynchobdellida (order) » Erpobdellidae (family)

CAAB Code:	22 322000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Erpobdellidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	22 - Annelida Segmented worms
Family:	22 322 Erpobdellidae (leeches) - show full list
Common Name:	leeches
Organism Type:	a leech
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Estuarine Freshwater
Child Codes:	22 322902 Dineta spp. 22 322904 Erpobdella spp.

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:30171166-15fb-4dc4-8934-b6dc96a3d8e0 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Scientific Name verified against:	Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Phillips, A.J., Pacheco-Chaves, B., Reeves, W.K., Siddall, M.E., 2011. Phylogeny of macrophagous leeches (Hirudinea, Clitellata) based on molecular data and evaluation of the barcoding locus., Zoological Scripta, Vol. 40(2): 194-203. . doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00465.x doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00465.x

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