Piscicola cf. haranti Jarry, 1960

Schenková, Jana, Sychra, Jan, Košel, Vladimír, Kubová, Nela & Horecký, Jakub, 2009, Freshwater leeches (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida) of the Czech Republic (Central Europe): check-list, new records, and remarks on species distributions, Zootaxa 2227, pp. 32-52 : 42

Piscicola cf. haranti Jarry, 1960

Records: Bílina River, Ústí nad Labem [5350], 50°39'28"N / 14°02'31"E, lgt. A (2007), det. JSy (2008); Mlýnský Brook, Litovel [6368], 49°41'58"N / 17°04'08"E, lgt. JSy, det. JSy (2008) ( Figure 2 ).

Habitats: The species was recorded in slow running waters located in the lowlands of the country.

Status: Piscicola cf. haranti is reported in this paper to be a new record for the Czech Republic. The first two records of this species in the country were collected from the Morava (March) and Labe (Elbe) River basins, and indicate its possible wider distribution in the country. Over the last 20 years this species has likely been slowly expanding its range throughout central Europe.

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FIGURE 2. The distribution of selected leech species (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudinida: the families Glossiphoniidae and Piscicolidae) in the Czech Republic recorded during the years 1998 through 2008, based upon published and unpublished records, and specimens collected during this study.