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WoRMS name details
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; note: type species Sanguinothus pinnarum new species, from 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]
additional source
Sawyer, R.T. (1986). Leech biology and behaviour. Vol. II. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Clarendon Press. 375 p. [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The first part of Sanguinothus de Silva & Burdon-Jones, is evidently from L. sanguisuga, f. a bloodsucker, and the second part the authors say is from nothus, a mongrel "to denote its intermediate position between Platybdella and Abranchus" [details]
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