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Helobdella modesta Verrill 1872

Description

Helobdella modesta (Verrill 1872)

Common name: Scutate snail leech

General distribution: Holarctic (Figures 2 B, 4B, Tables 1, 2).

Newfoundland: Survey: Site 1 (CMNA 2006–0001), Site 10 (CMNA 2006–0004), Site 12 (CMNA 2006–0006), Site 14 (CMNA 2006–0007), Site 15 (CMNA 2006–0009), Site 16 (CMNA 2006–0010), Site 17 (CMNA 2006–0011), Site 19 (CMNA 2006–0014). Museum specimens: CMNA 1981–0620, CMNA 1987– 0 485, CMNA 1987–0486, CMNA 1987–0487, CMNA 1987–0494, CMNA 1987–0500; Literature: Pawlowski (1948) as Helobdella stagnalis at St George’s (two stations), Deer Lake, Grand Falls; Gates and Moore (1970) as H. stagnalis at Lily Pond; Pickavance (1971) as Helobdella sp. at Rennies River, St. John’s; Davies (1973) as H. stagnalis at Rocky Harbour and at Bonne Bay, Big Pond, and Gull Lake [There is a Big Bonne Bay Pond NNE of Deer Lake (490 30' N, 57 0 55' W), Gull Lake (490 39' N, 560 57' W), and Big Pond just NE of Colinet and S of Ocean Pond (470 31' N, 530 28' W).

Labrador: Survey: Site 24 (CMNA 2006–0015).

St-Pierre and Miquelon: Literature: Pawlowski (1948) as Helobdella sp.: St-Pierre.

Other

Published as part of Madill, Jacqueline & Hovingh, Peter, 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, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 1657 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179881

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Glossiphoniidae
Genus
Helobdella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rhynchobdellida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Verrill
Species
modesta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Helobdella modesta Verrill, 1872 sec. Madill & Hovingh, 2007

References

  • Verrill, A. E. (1872) Descriptions of North American fresh-water leeches. The American Journal of Science and Arts, 3 (17), 126 - 139.
  • Pawlowski, L. K. (1948) Contribution a la connaissance des sangsues (Hirudinea) de la Nouvelle- Ecosse, de Terre - Neuve et des iles francaises Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Fragmenta Faunistica Musei Zoologici Polonici, 5 (# 20), 1 - 36.
  • Gates, G. E. & Moore, J. E. (1970) The freshwater and terrestrial Annelida. Fauna of Sable Island with its zoogeographic affinities. National Museum of Natural Sciences (Ottawa) Publications in Zoology, 4, 45.
  • Pickavance, J. R. (1971) Pollution of a stream in Newfoundland: Effects on invertebrate fauna. Biological Conservation, 3 (4), 264 - 268.
  • Davies, R. W. (1973) The geographic distribution of freshwater Hirudinoidea in Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 51, 531 - 545.