WoRMS name details
Sanguinothus pinnarum de Silva & Burdon-Jones, 1961
154894 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154894)
unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Silva, P.H.D.H. de; Burdon-Jones, C. (1961). A new genus and species of leech parasitic on the fish Cottus bubalis. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 136(3): 343-57., available online at https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1961.tb05879.x
page(s): 344, figure 1; note: collected from the fins of Cottus bubalis from Holyhead Island, Anglesey, and Port Erin, Wales [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 344, figure 1; note: collected from the fins of Cottus bubalis from Holyhead Island, Anglesey, and Port Erin, Wales [details] Available for editors
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Note collected from the fins of Cottus bubalis...
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Type locality collected from the fins of Cottus bubalis from Holyhead Island, Anglesey, and Port Erin, Wales, UK [details]
Etymology There is no etymology statement for the species-group name but 'pinnarum' from pinna, a fin (or feather etc) meaning 'of a...
Etymology There is no etymology statement for the species-group name but 'pinnarum' from pinna, a fin (or feather etc) meaning 'of a fin' is evidently a noun plural genitive in apposition, thus is unchanging [details]
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Nomenclature
original description
Silva, P.H.D.H. de; Burdon-Jones, C. (1961). A new genus and species of leech parasitic on the fish Cottus bubalis. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 136(3): 343-57., available online at https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1961.tb05879.x
page(s): 344, figure 1; note: collected from the fins of Cottus bubalis from Holyhead Island, Anglesey, and Port Erin, Wales [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record 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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 344, figure 1; note: collected from the fins of Cottus bubalis from Holyhead Island, Anglesey, and Port Erin, Wales [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record 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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
status source
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
status source Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p.
page(s): 620, 663; note: mentioned as Platybdella pinnarum but later incorrectly (as 'pinnarum' is a noun plural genitive in apposition) presented with altered spelling as Platybdella pinnara. [details]
status source Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p.
page(s): 620, 663; note: mentioned as Platybdella pinnarum but later incorrectly (as 'pinnarum' is a noun plural genitive in apposition) presented with altered spelling as Platybdella pinnara. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology There is no etymology statement for the species-group name but 'pinnarum' from pinna, a fin (or feather etc) meaning 'of a fin' is evidently a noun plural genitive in apposition, thus is unchanging [details]Type locality collected from the fins of Cottus bubalis from Holyhead Island, Anglesey, and Port Erin, Wales, UK [details]