{{Short description|Family of annelid worms}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Barbronia weberi.jpg |image_caption =Barbronia weberi |taxon = Salifidae |authority = Johansson, 1909 }}

'''Salifidae''' is a family of annelids belonging to the order Arhynchobdellida.<ref name="GBIF">{{cite web |title=Salifidae |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2256 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=13 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Like all leeches, salifids are hermaphrodites and most are very good swimmers.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Oosthuizen |first1=J.H. |title=Guides to the Freshwater Invertebtrates of Southern Africa Volume 5: Non-Arthropods |last2=Siddall |first2=Mark E. |date=March 2002 |location=Republic of South Africa |chapter=Chapter 14 Hirudinea}}</ref> Salifids live in aerated streams in Africa, Asia, and some Pacific islands.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Westergren |first1=Stephanie |last2=Siddall |first2=Mark E. |date=2004 |title=Two New Species of Salifid Leeches (Arhynchobdellida: Erpobdelliformes: Salifidae) from South Africa and Madagascar |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3456 |pages=1–6 |doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2004)456<0001:TNSOSL>2.0.CO;2 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/177933 }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> They are macrophagous carnivores, rather than haematophagous (blood-sucking), and swallow their prey whole.<ref name=":0" /> Prey animals include mainly chironomid larvae.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> Salifids have pharyngeal stylets rather than the jaws or probosces present in other leeches.<ref name=":0" />

==Genera== GBIF includes:<ref name="GBIF" /> # ''Barbronia'' <small>Johansson, 1918</small> # ''Dineta'' {{Au|Goddard, 1908}} # ''Linta'' <small>Westergren & Siddall, 2004</small> # ''Lumbricobdella'' <small>Kennel, 1886</small> # ''Mimobdella'' {{Au|Blanchard, 1897}} # ''Odontobdella'' {{Au|Oka, 1923}} # ''Salifa'' {{Au|Blanchard, 1897}} # ''Sinodontobdella'' {{Au|Nesemann et al., 2007}}

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Category:Annelids Category:Annelid families