WoRMS source details
Benham, William B. (1909). Preliminary report on two Hirudinea from the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. [Book section]. p. 373-376 In. C. Chilton (ed.) The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand.
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Benham, William B.
1909
Preliminary report on two Hirudinea from the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
[Book section]
p. 373-376 In. C. Chilton (ed.) The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Publication
None. Begins: "Time does not permit me to give a detailed anatomical account of the two leeches collected during the expedition. To await the arrival of the necessary literature from Europe would delay the issue of this volume. in which it has been deemed desirable to include them; so that the present account must be regarded as merely a preliminary one, and the names as provisional. which may need correction in a further article, in which the internal structure will be discussed."
New Zealand
Systematics, Taxonomy
Date
action
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Notobdella Benham, 1909 (original description)
Notobdella nototheniae Benham, 1909 (original description)
Ornithobdella Benham, 1909 (original description)
Ornithobdella edentula Benham, 1909 (original description)
Notobdella nototheniae Benham, 1909 (original description)
Ornithobdella Benham, 1909 (original description)
Ornithobdella edentula Benham, 1909 (original description)
Etymology
Not stated. Assumed to be a compound formed from the genus of host fish, Notothenia, combined with -bdella, Greek ... [details]
Grammatical gender
Feminine genus. Names based on -bdella are feminine. Bdella is Greek for leech [details]
Habitat
Benham (1909) found the leech in what he called moist "excrementitious matter from the bird's nests." [details]
Specimen
Benham states that he collected three specimens [details]
Type locality
off Snares Island, New Zealand. On marine fish Notothenia microlepidota caught on handline. [details]
Type locality
Snares Island, subantarctic New Zealand [details]
