Biology:Acanthobdellidea

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Short description: Family of annelid worms

Acanthobdellidea
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Acanthobdella peledina
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Subclass: Hirudinea
Infraclass: Acanthobdellidea

Acanthobdellidea is an infraclass of primitive leeches; some authors place them in a separate subclass from the Hirudinea.[1] However, the World Register of Marine Species places them within the Hirudinea, as a sister group to Euhirudinea, the true leeches.[2]

Species in the group include Acanthobdella peledina, described by the German zoologist Adolph Eduard Grube in 1851,[3] and A. livanowi, described in 1966.[4]

References

  1. Siddall, Mark E.; Burreson, Eugene M. (1996). "Leeches (Oligochaeta?: Euhirudinea), their phylogeny and the evolution of life-history strategies". Hydrobiologia 334 (1–3): 277–285. doi:10.1007/bf00017378. 
  2. Kolb, Jürgen (2018). "Hirudinea". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2041. 
  3. Kolb, Jürgen (2018). "Acanthobdella peledina Grube, 1851". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763070. 
  4. Kolb, Jürgen (2018). "Acanthobdella livanowi (Epshtein, 1966)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763071.