Published November 11, 2025 | Version v1

Troglobdella Liu & Nakano 2025, gen. nov.

  • 1. Engineering Research Center for Exploitation & Utilization of Leech Resources in Universities of Yunnan Province, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Kunming University, Kunming 650214, China
  • 2. Guizhou Institute of Biology, Guiyang 550009, China
  • 3. Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
  • 4. Weining County Pigeon Association, Bijie 553199, China
  • 5. Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 - 8502, Japan

Description

Troglobdella Liu & Nakano gen. nov.

Type species.

Troglobdella guizhouensis Liu & Nakano, sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Kaiqing, Li, Qing, Wu, Heqi, Lin, Yiquan, Li, Hexiang, Nakano, Takafumi & Liu, Zichao, 2025, A new genus and species of cave-dwelling leech from China in the family Salifidae: taxonomy, phylogeny, and mitochondrial genome characterization, pp. 2123-2132 in Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (4) on pages 2123-2132, DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.168628

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Liu & Nakano
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Actinedida
Family
Bdellidae
Genus
Troglobdella
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Troglobdella Liu, Li, Li, Nakano & Liu, 2025