Plumatella aff. fungosa (Pallas, 1768)

Klass, Anna L., Sokolova, Svetlana E., Kondakov, Alexander V., Bespalaya, Yulia V., Gofarov, Mikhail Yu., Tomilova, Alena A., Vikhrev, Ilya V. & Bolotov, Ivan N., 2018, An example of a possible leech-bryozoan association in freshwater, ZooKeys 794, pp. 23-30 : 23

Plumatella aff. fungosa (Pallas, 1768)

Material examined.

RUSSIA: Eastern Siberia, Yakutia, a floodplain lake of the Lena River near the city of Yakutsk, 62.3076° N, 129.8999° E, colony (size of 40 ×20× 25 mm) on a willow branch fragment, Bolotov leg. (voucher no. RMBH: Por02).

Comments.

The species phylogenetically relates to Plumatella fungosa from Estonia (acc. no. KF805632) ( Dash and Vasemägi 2014), but with a low similarity (uncorrected p-distance 3.8%). However, our specimen has 100% accordance with Plumatella fungosa from Austria (acc. no. KC462027) ( Hartikainen et al. 2013) by the nuclear 28S rRNA gene sequence.