Helobdella octatestisaca Lai and Chang 2009
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Description
The presence of a chitinous nuchal scute; dorsal and ventral surfaces with inconspicuous papillae; no metameric pigmentation patterns; eyespots in one pair, each shaped somewhat triangularly, almost touching each other is consistent with the description of Helobdella octatestisaca (see Salas-Montiel et al., 2014). Found on the underside of submerged rocks and plants. Nonblood-feeding (liquidosomatophagous). New state record; new locality records: Bosque Azul, Lagunas de Montebello (16°07′37.83″N, 91°43′53.68″W; 1462 m) 30 specimens collected January 25, 2016, by M. Tessler, J. Arroyave, S. Contreras, and A. Oceguera-Figueroa (CNI 27); Osumacinta Dam (16°57′47.5″N, 93°06′21.82″W; 207 m) 16 specimens collected January 24, 2016, by M. Tessler, J. Arroyave, S. Contreras, and A. Oceguera-Figueroa (CNI 28). GenBank cox1 barcode sequence accessions: MG 821611, MG 821612, MG 821613, and MG 821614.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MG
- Material sample ID
- CNI 27, CNI 28
- Event date
- 2016-01-24
- Verbatim event date
- 2016-01-24/25
- Scientific name authorship
- Lai and Chang
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Rhynchobdellida
- Family
- Glossiphoniidae
- Genus
- Helobdella
- Species
- octatestisaca
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Helobdella octatestisaca and, 2009 sec. Tessler, Siddall & Oceguera-Figueroa, 2018
References
- Salas-Montiel, R., A. J. Phillips, G. Perez-Ponce De Leon, and A. Oceguera-Figueroa. 2014. Description of a new leech species of Helobdella (Clitellata: Glossiphoniidae) from Mexico with a review of Mexican congeners and a taxonomic key. Zootaxa 3900: 77 - 94.