Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)
Soós, Á.: On the genus Glossiphonia Johnson, 1816, with a key and catalogue to the species (Hirudinoidea: Glossiphoniidae)
ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALES HUNGARICI Tomus 58. PARS ZOOLOGICA 1966. On the Genus Glossiphonia Johnson, 1816, with a Key and Catalogue to the Species (Hirudinoidea: Glossiphoniidae) By Á. Soós, Budapest Although it was a round 150 years ago that JOHNSON established the genus Glossiphonia in 1816, the situation is becoming clarified only now with respect to which of the several dozens of species described in the last one and a half centuries as "Glossiphonia' (respectively Glossosiphonia) really belong to this genus. Since the expounding of the history of 150 years of the genus would take up a considerable amount of space, I will pass it over here. That the reader should be able to establish, in want of this information, to what genus some of the species originally described as Glossiphonia are now relegated, I submit a list in this regard at the end of the present paper. In this annotated catalogue I give also the name of the author to whom the reallocation is due. On the other hand, the list does not contain the "Glossiphonia" species which were originally described as members of other genera, but which were at some later time treated, for a longer or shorter period, by certain authors as representatives of the genus Glossiphonia. Glossiphonia JOHNSON, 1816 Glossiphonia JOHNSON (1816): A Treatise on the medicinal Leech. — London, p. 25.. Synonymy : Glossopora DE BLALNVILLE (1818) (partim): in LAMARCK: Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertébrés, Paris, 5, p. 296. Clepsine SAVIGNY (1822) (partim): Système des Annélides. — Paris, p. 117. Glossobdella DE BEATNVIELE (1827): Diet. Sei. Nat., Paris, 47, p. 263. Glossosiphonia BLANCHARD (1894): Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. comp. Univ. Torino, 9, No._ 192, p. 24. Diagnosis : Glossiphonid, generally of small size. Body ovate, ovateacuminate or lanceolate, dorso-laterally strongly depressed, dorsally somewhat rounded, ventrally flat or concave. Anterior sucker not separated from body, posterior sucker terminal, cupuliform, distinct from body, centrally attached and ventral in aspect, always narrower than maximum body width. Body opaque, gelatinous, transparent or translucent. Colour and pigmentation highly variable. Surface either smooth in macroscopic view, respectively very finely granular, or typically with 6 rows of sensory papillae. Complete somite triannulate (a v a 2 , a 3 ), annuli of approximately equal size. Total number of annuli mostly 70. Eyes typically three pairs, rarely only two, eventually coalescing in various ways. Salivary glands diffuse. Crop with six pairs of
