Placobdelloides Sawyer, 1986

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, pp. 1-24 : 1

Placobdelloides Sawyer, 1986

Type species.

Placobdelloides multistriata (Johansson, 1909) by original designation.

Genus diagnosis.

eyes one pair, esophageal organ, crop caeca seven pairs, mouth pore terminal ( Oosthuizen 1979).

Genus distribution.

Placobdelloides species can be found in Africa ( P. fimbriata (Johansson, 1909); P. jaegerskioeldi (Johansson, 1909); P. multistriata (Johansson, 1909)), Australia and United States, eastward to India ( P. fulva (Harding, 1924); P. emydae (Harding, 1920); P. undulata (Harding, 1924); P. horai (Baugh, 1960); P. indica (Baugh, 1960)), Southeast Asia ( P. siamensis in China and Thailand; P. okadai (Oka, 1925) in China; P. okai ( Soós, 1969); P. stellapapillosa Govedich et al., 2002 in Malaysia and Singapore), and throughout Australia and New Zealand ( P. octostriata (Grube, 1866); P. maorica (Benham, 1907); P. bancrofti (Best, 1931); P. bdellae (Ingram, 1957)).