Chaetogaster diaphanus (Gruithuisen, 1828)

Baturina, Maria A., Kaygorodova, Irina A. & Loskutova, Olga A., 2020, New data on species diversity of Annelida (Oligochaeta, Hirudinea) in the Kharbey lakes system, Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Russia), ZooKeys 910, pp. 43-78 : 43

4. Chaetogaster diaphanus (Gruithuisen, 1828)

Nais diaphanus Gruithuisen, 1828

Geographic distribution.

Cosmopolitan species. In the Russian tundra: Murmansk Region ( Finogenova 1975; Timm and Popchenko 1978), the Solovetsky Islands ( Popchenko 1972), Vaygach Island ( Leshko et al. 2008), the Pechora River delta ( Baturina 2018), the Vashutkiny lakes system ( Finogenova 1966), Lake Ambarty and some other lakes in the Korotaikha River basin ( Popchenko 1978), lakes in the Kara River basin, lakes in the More-yu River basin, Lake Bolshoy Ngosovey ( Baturina and Loskutova 2010), the Ob River delta ( Timm and Abarenkov 2018), the northern part of Western Siberia ( Zaloznyj 1984), the Yamal Peninsula ( Stepanov 2016).

Location.

Lake Bolshoy Kharbey (67°34'34.3"N, 62°52'17.4"E; 67°33'48.2"N, 62°55'2.6"E; 67°32'49.4"N, 62°53'6.6"E; 67°31'49.9"N, 62°52'40.1"E); Lake L (67°35'46"N, 62°49'44.8"E); Lake K1 (67°36'17.6"N, 62°52'35"E); Lake Golovka (67°35'50"N, 62°55'25.3"E).

Ecology.

The species inhabits various sites with rocky, sandy, and vegetative substrates (depths 0.3-4.2 m).