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Semiscolecides hondurensis  Augener, 1930
Taxonomic Serial No.: 568956

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumAnnelida  – annelids, annélides, Anelídeo, minhoca, sanguessuga  
                ClassClitellata   
                   SubclassLumbriculata   
                      OrderHirudinida   
                         SuborderArhynchobdellida Blanchard, 1894  
                            InfraorderErpobdelliformes Sawyer, 1986  
                               FamilyErpobdellidae Blanchard, 1894  
                                  GenusSemiscolecides Augener, 1930  
                                     SpeciesSemiscolecides hondurensis Augener, 1930  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Donald J. Klemm   
  Notes: National Exposure Research Laboratory, Ecological Exposure Research Division, Ecosystems Research Branch (MS-642), 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268-0001   
  Reference for: Semiscolecides hondurensis    
       
  Expert: William E. Moser   
  Notes: Department of Invertebrate Zoology (MRC 163), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0163   
  Reference for: Semiscolecides hondurensis    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Soós, A.   
  Publication Date: 1966   
  Article/Chapter Title: Identification key to the leech (Hirudinoidea) genera of the world, with a catalogue of the species. II. Families: Semiscolecidae, Trematobdellidae, Americobdellidae, Diestecostomatidae   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Acta Zoologica Hungarica, vol. 12, no. 1/2   
  Page(s): 145-160   
  Publisher: Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia   
  Publication Place: Budapest, Hungary   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0236-7130   
  Notes: Volume 12, Number 1/2   
  Reference for: Semiscolecides hondurensis   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: [excerpted from Sawyer (1986:735)]: "The inadequately described Semiscolecides hondurensis Augener, 1930 is probably an erpobdellid: gonopores separated by three annuli; eyes four pairs (two labial and two buccal)."  
 

 

    


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