Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata > Subclass Hirudinea > Infraclass Euhirudinea > Order Rhynchobdellida > Family Piscicolidae > Subfamily Platybdellinae

Platybdella Malm, 1863

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Platybdella anarrhichae (Diesing, 1859)
Platybdella fabricii Malm, 1863
Platybdella olriki Malm, 1865
Platybdella pinnarum (de Silva & Burdon-Jones, 1961)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: キタノウオビル属

Literature

original description	Malm, A. W. (1863). Svenska Iglar, Disciferae, afbildade efter lefvande examplar och beskrifna [Swedish Leeches, Disciferae, illustrated after living specimens and described]. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps-och Vitterhets-samhället Handlingar. 8: 151-259 + index + plates 3-5.
basis of record	Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Hirudinea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 234-235
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).