Not stated. Assumed to be a compound formed from the genus of host fish, Notothenia, combined with -bdella, Greek ... [details]
Feminine genus. Names based on -bdella are feminine. Bdella is Greek for leech [details]
Benham (1909) found the leech in what he called moist "excrementitious matter from the bird's nests." [details]
Benham states that he collected three specimens [details]
off Snares Island, New Zealand. On marine fish Notothenia microlepidota caught on handline. [details]
Snares Island, subantarctic New Zealand [details]