Piscicola sp.

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.910.48486

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:04ABDDCC-3E6C-49A5-91CF-8F3174C74A1E

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/963FE17C-02D1-5D13-8324-A5F855A2270F

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scientific name

Piscicola sp.
status

 

61. Piscicola sp. View in CoL

Morphology.

Very small leech, its body length is 7 mm and diameter is 1.5 mm. Pigmentation is uniform, does not form a specific pattern on the dorsal side of the body, unlike the widespread P. geometra .

Location.

Lake Golovka (67°35'50"N, 62°55'25.3"E).

Ecology.

A single specimen was found on the dorsal fin of a whitefish.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Clitellata

SubClass

Acanthobdellea

Order

Rhynchobdellida

Family

Piscicolidae

SubFamily

Theromyzinae