Erpobdella parva (Moore 1912)

Madill, Jacqueline & Hovingh, Peter, 2007, Freshwater leech (Annelida: Hirudinida) distribution in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and adjacent regions: check-list, new records, new pigmentation forms, and Pleistocene refugia, Zootaxa 1657, pp. 1-21 : 10

Erpobdella parva (Moore 1912)

Synonym: Dina parva Moore 1912

General distribution: Nearctic ( Figure 3 D, Table 2 ).

Newfoundland: Museum specimen: USNM 38582: Fox Island, Rocky Shore (1927, station number 15, accession number 259718, collector Ruby Bere). (See note about Fox Island in Previous Records section.) Identified by the presence of two pairs of labial eyes and the gonopores are separated by 4 or 3 ½ annuli.

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FIGURE 3. Distribution of rare leeches. Circles, 2004 survey; squares, literature locations (Pawlowski 1948, Davies 1973); triangles, museum specimens. A, Alboglossiphonia heteroclita (Linnaeus); B, Theromyzon sp.; C, Haemopis marmorata (Say): circles and squares; Haemopis lateromaculata Mathers: triangles; D, Haemopis grandis (Verrill) and Erpobdella parva (Moore): both museum specimens found at the same site (Fox Island- see text).