identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
8F4487BAFF95FF95FF6AB61C3286FE8C.text	8F4487BAFF95FF95FF6AB61C3286FE8C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Orientobdelloides Bolotov & Eliseeva & Kondakov & Coi & S & . & . & . & . & . & O. & . & O. 2022	<div><p>Genus Orientobdelloides gen. nov.</p> <p>Type species: Hemiclepsis siamensis Oka, 1917. https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: C1BC63F5-D3BE-498E-BD47-431C4F8B2187</p> <p>Diagnosis: Medium-sized leeches; one pair of eyes on somite III; mid-body somites triannulate; mouth pore apical on the rim of oral sucker; salivary glands compact, esophageal glands present, ovate; seven pairs of crop caeca; six pairs of testisacs; male and female gonopores separated by two annuli: male gonopore on Xa3/XIa1 or XIa1/a2, female gonopore on XIa2/a3 or XIa3/XIIa1. Phylogenetically, the new genus represents a well-supported clade, which is distant from the African Placobdelloides, including its type species P. multistriatus.</p> <p>Etymology: The name of the new genus is combined from two words: ‘ Orient ’ (reference to its range within the Oriental Region) and ‘ bdelloides ’ (reference to the former generic placement of this clade in the genus Placobdelloides).</p> <p>Species with new combinations: Orientobdelloides siamensis (Oka, 1917) gen. &amp; comb. nov.; O. sirikanchanae (Trivalairat, Chiangkul &amp; Purivirojkul, 2019) comb. nov.; O. tridens (Chiangkul, Trivalairat, Kunya &amp; Purivirojkul, 2021) comb. nov.</p> <p>Hosts: Freshwater turtles (Trivalairat et al. 2019; Chiangkul et al. 2018, 2020, 2021a).</p> <p>Distribution: Thailand and southeastern China.</p> <p>Comments: Other Southeast and East Asian species currently placed in the genus Placobdelloides cannot be transferred to the new genus due to significant morphological differences. Generally, P. okadai, P. okai, and P. stellapapillosa lack esophageal glands. Moreover, P. okadai and P. okai share one pair of eyes in II or at II/III (Moore 1930; Lai &amp; Chen 2010), whereas P. stellapapillosa has one pair of eyes on somite I or II and prominent star-like papillae (Govedich et al., 2002). The generic assignment of these taxa could be clarified in the future on the basis of DNA sequence data. A close relationship of African species with those from Australia and New Zealand is also rather doubtful. For example, P. bancrofti (Best, 1931) from Australia may also belong to a separate genus because it differs from other Placobdelloides species by having one annulus between gonopores (McKenna et al. 2005). It is clear that the rest of the Placobdelloides species are still a paraphyletic assemblage, which needs future revision by means of an integrative taxonomic approach.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8F4487BAFF95FF95FF6AB61C3286FE8C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Bolotov, Ivan N.;Eliseeva, Tatyana A.;Kondakov, Alexander V.;Coi;S;.;.,.;.;.;.,.;O.;.,.;O.	Bolotov, Ivan N., Eliseeva, Tatyana A., Kondakov, Alexander V., Coi, S, ., .,., ., ., .,., O., .,., O. (2022): A new freshwater leech genus from Southeast Asia (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 56: 1-9, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.56.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2022.56.1
