Mimobdella
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Ordo: Arhynchobdellida
Familia: Salifidae
Name
Mimobdella Blanchard, 1897 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Mimobdella japonica Blanchard, 1897
Emended diagnosis
Mid-body somites novem-annulate, c1 = c2 < b2 < a2 > c9 = c10 = d21 = d22 < c12. Post-anal annulus present. Pharynx strepsilaematous, with three myognaths separated by triangular papragnaths; each myognath bearing stylets in pairs arranged in tandem. Testisacs multiple. Accessory copulatory pit and gastopore absent.
Remarks
Sawyer (1986)[1] placed three species, Mimobdella japonica, Mimobdella buttikoferi Blanchard, 1897, and Mimobdella thienemani Augener, 1931, under the genus Mimobdella. However, Blanchard (1897)[2] described that Mimobdella buttikoferi does not possess paragnaths (pseudognaths in his paper). Augener (1931)[3] described that the mid-body somites annulation of Mimobdella thienemani is sexannulate (two large and four short annuli). Their external features do not match the generic diagnostic characters according to the type species. In addition, the internal morphology of the two species has not been reported. Thus, it is questionable whether those two species, Mimobdella buttikoferi and Mimobdella thienemani, belong to this genus. Therefore, only one species, Mimobdella japonica, is certainly included in Mimobdella.
Taxon Treatment
- Nakano, T; 2011: Holotype redescription of Mimobdella japonica (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Erpobdelliformes) and taxonomic status of the genus Mimobdella ZooKeys, 119: 1-10. doi
