Placobdella, PARASITICA

Sawyer, Roy T., 2021, Description and taxonomic analysis of a tuberculated turtle leech from the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA, provisionally identified as Placobdella multilineata Moore, 1953 (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae), Zootaxa 4991 (1), pp. 1-35 : 35

OUTGROUP: PLACOBDELLA PARASITICA

NORTH CAROLINA

Tyrrell County. GUM NECK, NEAR FWB CHURCH [35.712480, -76.114413]: PP-1 [26 May 2017, 1 recently fed specimen, on snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina , on land, 36.5 mm] . GUM NECK, 460 GRAPEVINE LANDING ROAD [35.719759, -76.107886]: PP-2 [3 May 2018, 1 specimen with some blood in gut, on mud turtle, Kinosternum subrubrum , on land, 22.0 mm]; PP-3 [10 Oct 2013, 1 unfed specimen, on aluminium trap, 12.8 mm]; PP-4a [27 May 2019, 1 brooding adult with numerous hatchlings on belly, on aluminium trap, 39.8 mm]; PP-4b [hatchlings of PP-4a] .