Erpobdella monostriata Lindenfeld & Pietruszynski 1890
Description
Erpobdella monostriata (Lindenfeld & Pietruszynski, 1890)
(Fig. 8 and Plate III 1 A&B)
Material examined. Khezrlou, Chaldoran, Azerbaijan Gharbi, (N 39° 02΄ 48.9˝, E 44° 19΄ 56.1˝), 1906m, ZUTC 6065. Choupankare, Ajabshir, Azerbaijan Gharbi, (N 37° 31΄ 15.4˝, E 45° 51΄ 14.4 ˝), 1404 m, ZUTC 6067. Takagaj village, Miandoab, Azerbaijan Gharbi, (N 36° 56΄ 50.3˝, E 46° 27΄ 57.3˝), 1591 m, ZUTC 6069 (Fig. 1).
General distribution and habitats. Distributed in lowlands of eastern Germany and Poland (Nesemann & Neubert 1999) also reaching European Russia (Utevsky et al. 2015). Living in shallow streams and springs among aquatic vegetations or underside of stones. A new record for Iran.
Descriptive features and remarks. Small leeches (to 35 mm). Anterior cylindrical and acute but posterior slightly flattened. No pronounced lateral keels. Body surface smooth with no papillae. Genital pores separated by 3.5 or four annuli. Dorsally bright yellowish or brownish. A dark longitudinal stripe in mid-dorsal as discriminative character. Sometimes fade stripe in some specimens like a dark cloud. Ventrally, uni-colored bright yellowish.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZUTC
- Family
- Erpobdellidae
- Genus
- Erpobdella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- ZUTC 6065 , ZUTC 6067 , ZUTC 6069
- Order
- Arhynchobdellida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Lindenfeld & Pietruszynski
- Species
- monostriata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Erpobdella monostriata Lindenfeld, 1890 sec. Darabi-Darestani, Sari & Sarafrazi, 2016
References
- Nesemann, H. & Neubert, E. (1999) Annelida, Clitellata: Branchiobdellida, Acanthobdellea, Hirudinida. In: Schwoerbel, J. & Zwick, P. (Eds.), Sußwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa 6 / 2. Spektrum, Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 178.
- Utevsky, S., Dubov, P. G. & Prokin, A. A. (2015) First Russian record of Erpobdella monostriata: DNA barcoding and geographical distribution (Annelida, Hirudinida, Erpobdellidae). Spixiana, 38 (2), 161 - 168.