Dina lepinja

External morphology

Small to medium sized leeches from 15-35 mm in length. The anterior part of the body is blunt and rounded. The body is flattened with blunt lateral keels. The caudal sucker reaches half the maximum body width. Annulus b6 is only slightly broadened, its subdivision into cl1/cl2 is inconspicuous. The male genital pore is situated in furrow XII b2/a2, the female in b6/b1. They are separated by three annuli. The cornua are thick, short and dorsoventrally curved. The colour of the body is cream yellow to pinkish with a maroon-brown dorsal pigmentation. Marginally, there are brownish-whitie to pink stripes.

Habitat & range

Habitat

Freshwater

Region

Europe

Recorded from

Montenegro

Biology

This species is known from the sublittoral. It might also occur in the littoral. Endemic to Lake Ohrid.

Original description

Sket & Sapkarev, Dina lepinja sp. n. (Hirudinea, Erpobdellidae), a new endemic leech from the ancient Lake Ohridsko Ezero. (1986). Bioloski Vestnik, 34(2), 89-92

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Sources used for this page

Description: ISBN 9783827409270