Placobdelloides is a genus of glossophoniid leeches.
Description
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.
Species
The genus includes 17 species found worldwide:
- Placobdelloides bancrofti <small>(Best, 1931)</small>
- Placobdelloides bdellae <small>(Ingram, 1957)</small>
- Placobdelloides emydae <small>(Harding, 1924)</small>
- Placobdelloides fimbriata <small>(Johansson, 1909)</small>
- Placobdelloides fulva <small>(Harding, 1921)</small>
- Placobdelloides horai <small>(Baugh, 1960)</small>
- Placobdelloides indica <small>(Baugh, 1960)</small>
- Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi <small>(Johansson, 1909)</small>
- Placobdelloides maorica <small>(Benham, 1907)</small>
- Placobdelloides multistriata <small>(Johansson, 1909)</small>
- Placobdelloides octostriata <small>(Grube, 1866)</small>
- Placobdelloides okadai <small>(Oka, 1925)</small>
- Placobdelloides okai <small>(Soós, 1969)</small>
- Placobdelloides siamensis <small>(Oka, 1917)</small>
- Placobdelloides sirikanchanae <small>Trivalairat, Chiangkul & Purivirojkul, 2019</small>
- Placobdelloides stellapapillosa <small>Goverdich et al., 2002</small>
- Placobdelloides undulata <small>(Harding, 1924)</small>
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