Placobdelloides is a genus of glossophoniid leeches.[1]

Placobdelloides
Placobdelloides siamensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Clade: Sedentaria
Class: Clitellata
Subclass: Hirudinea
Order: Rhynchobdellida
Family: Glossiphoniidae
Genus: Placobdelloides
Sawyer, 1986

Description

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Species of Placobdelloides lack a jaw and usually feed with a protrusible proboscis; they are predacious or sanguivorous, or both, on a variety of prey such as shrimps, waterfowl, fish, amphibians, turtles, crocodiles or mammals.[2]

Species

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The genus includes 17 species found worldwide: [2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Sawyer, Roy T. (1986). Leech Biology and Behaviour. Volume II: Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-857622-8.
  2. ^ a b Chiangkul, Krittiya; Trivalairat, Poramad; Purivirojkul, Watchariya (2018). "Redescription of the Siamese shield leech Placobdelloides siamensis with new host species and geographic range". Parasite. 25: 56. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018056. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6254108. PMID 30474597.  
  3. ^ Trivalairat, Poramad; Chiangkul, Krittiya; Purivirojkul, Watchariya (2019). "Placobdelloides sirikanchanae sp. nov., a new species of glossiphoniid leech and a parasite of turtles from lower southern Thailand (Hirudinea, Rhynchobdellida)". ZooKeys (882): 1–24. doi:10.3897/zookeys.882.35229. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6821855. PMID 31686947.