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Haemopis grandis Verrill 1874
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Description
Haemopis grandis (Verrill 1874)
Synonym: Mollibdella grandis (Verrill 1874)
General distribution: Eastern North America (Figure 3 D, Table 2).
Newfoundland: Museum specimens: USNM 38612: Fox Island (1927, station 15, accession number 259718, collector Ruby Bere). (See note about Fox Island in Previous Records section.)
Notes on the species. This species is identified by the characteristic pharyngeal musculature associated with the lack of teeth and jaws (Richardson 1969). A specimen was dissected to examine the internal organs. Haemopis grandis is previously unreported in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Notes
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 page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179881
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Verrill
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Arhynchobdellida
- Family
- Haemopidae
- Genus
- Haemopis
- Species
- grandis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Haemopis grandis Verrill, 1874 sec. Madill & Hovingh, 2007
References
- Richardson, L. R. (1969) A contribution to the systematics of the hirudinid leeches, with description of new families, genera and species. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 15, 97 - 149.