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Alboglossiphonia sibirica
· Glossiphoniidae
External morphology
Body ovate. Caudal sucker ventral, oval; BL 9.08 mm, BW 3.26 mm, CL 1.36 mm, CW 1.19 mm. Somites I and II fused, comprising three annuli altogether. Somite III uniannulate. Somite IV biannulate (a1 + a2) = a3. Somites V–XXIV triannulate a1 = a2 21 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 = a3. Somite XXV biannulate a1 = (a2 + a3). Somites XXVI and XXVII uniannulate. Anus between XXVI and XXVII. Clitellum unobservable. Common gonopore at posterior margin of XII a1. Eyes in three pairs on IV a1 to V a1. First pairs closest together. Dorsum with numerous small papillae on every mid-body annulus; similar in size (Fig. 10A). Nephridiopores undetectable, In life, generally appears whitish or yellowish; ground-colour white, slightly transparent. Irregularly arranged dark spots present on dorsum (Fig. 10C) but absent on ventral surface. In preservative, colouration faded, but dark pigmentation remains visible.
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- Europe
- Recorded from
- Russia
Original description
Bolotov, Ivan N.; Kondakov, Alexander V.; Eliseeva, Tatyana A.; Aksenova, Olga V.; Babushkin, Evgeny S.; Bespalaya, Yulia V.; Chertoprud, Elena S.; Dvoryankin, Gennady A.; Gofarov, Mikhail Yu; Klass, Anna L.; Konopleva, Ekaterina S.; Kropotin, Alexander V.; Lyubas, Artem A.; Makhrov, Alexander A.; Palatov, Dmitry M.; Shevchenko, Alexander R.; Sokolova, Svetlana E.; Spitsyn, Vitaly M.; Tomilova, Alena A.; Vikhrev, Ilya V.; Zubrii, Natalia A.; Vinarski, Maxim V. (2022). Cryptic taxonomic diversity and high-latitude melanism in the glossiphoniid leech assemblage from the Eurasian Arctic. Scientific Reports. 12(1): 20630: 1-25.