Alboglossiphonia heteroclita (Linnaeus, 1761)

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 : 36

Alboglossiphonia heteroclita (Linnaeus, 1761)

Habitats and status: The species prefers lowland vegetated pools or slow running waters with riparian vegetation. Because of both morphological and genetic differences, two new species— A. hyalina and A. striata —were recently separated from this taxon ( Trontelj 1997, Neubert & Nesemann 1999). Unfortunately, only some of the older records are distinguished into forms ‘heteroclita’, ‘hyalina’ and ‘striata’, thus it is not possible to separate their habitat preferences at this time. Alboglossiphonia heteroclita seems to be the most common species occurring in the whole territory of the Czech Republic except at higher elevations (only rarely over 500 m a.s.l.).