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Glossiphonia sp.2
GBIF:127886599
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Taxon classification Animalia Rhynchobdellea Glossiphoniidae
Glossiphonia sp. 2
New species records.
Kurma Bay, Lake Zama.
Morphological characteristics.
The size varies from 7 to 12 mm. This leech has a bright amber colour due to tiny pale brown pigment cells uniformly strewn along the body dorsally and one pair of dark longitudinal median rows (Fig. 3).
Ecological characteristics.
Glossiphonia sp. 2 occupies the same ecological niche as the previous Glossiphonia species, parasitizing small invertebrates preferentially molluscs.
Kaygorodova, Irina A. (2015): Annotated checklist of the leech species diversity in the Maloe More Strait of Lake Baikal, Russia. ZooKeys 545: 37-52, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.545.6053, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.545.6053Pensoft via PlaziNo known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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