Glossiphonia elegans Castle 1900
Description
Glossiphonia elegans (Verrill, 1872) Castle, 1900 Figure 14
The presence of three pairs of eyespots, dorsal papillation and pigmentation pattern, two paramedial longitudinal stripes in the ventral surface, two annuli between gonopores, and a relatively large size correspond with the description of Glossiphonia elegans. North American and European forms have very similar morphological traits, to the extent that previous taxonomists (i.e., Klemm, 1982; Sawyer, 1986) considered them to be the same species: Glossiphonia complanata (Linnaeus, 1758). However, Siddall et al. (2005), using phylogenetic criteria, found that they represent different evolutionary lineages and resurrected Verrill’s 1872 name Glossiphonia elegans for the North American species (see also Madill and Hovingh, 2007). Found on the underside of submerged rocks and wood.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Glossiphoniidae
- Genus
- Glossiphonia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rhynchobdellida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Castle
- Species
- elegans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Glossiphonia elegans Castle, 1900 sec. Oceguera-Figueroa, Kvist, Watson, Sankar, Overstreet & Siddall, 2010
References
- Klemm, D. J. 1982. The leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) of North America. Cincinnati, OH: Aquatic Biology Section, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory. Office of Research and Development, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Sawyer, R. T. 1986. Leech biology and behavior. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Siddall, M. E., R. B. Budinoff, and E. Borda. 2005. Phylogenetic evaluation of the systematics and biogeography of the leech family Glossiphoniidae. Invertebrate Systematics 19: 105 - 112.
- Madill, J., and P. Hovingh. 2007. Freshwater leech (Annelida: Hirudinida) distribution in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and adjacent regions: check-list, new records, new pigmentation forms, and Pleistocene refugia. Zootaxa 1657: 1 - 21.