Acanthobdella peledina Grube, 1851

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

52. Acanthobdella peledina Grube, 1851

Geographic distribution.

Palaearctic region, namely Northern Eurasia. In the Russian tundra: the Vashutkiny lakes system ( Lukin 1966), northern part of Western Siberia ( Zaloznyj 1984), the Gydansky Peninsula ( Gagnon and Shorthouse 2019).

Location.

Lake Bolshoy Kharbey (67°31'8"N, 62°53'2.8"E), temporary pond (67°58'00"N, 62°34'60"E).

Ecology.

Parasite of arctic salmonid fish. Within the area, A. peledina was observed on Coregonus lavaretus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Thymallus thymallus (Linnaeus, 1758).