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Dina serbica
· Erpobdellidae
External morphology
Medium sized leeches; preserved and contracted adults reach a body length of 42 mm (paratype). The body is slightly dorso-ventrally flattened. The caudal sucker is slightly narrower than the maximum body width. The mouth is wide; the upper lip of the oral sucker not elongated. The visible eyes reduced. The midbody somites quinqueannulate with annulus b6 only slightly broadened, more clearly broadened in the last half of the body. Annulus b6 not or only very slightly subdivided into annuli c11 and c12, other annuli not subdivided. The male genital pore situated in the furrow b2/a2, the female in the furrow b5/b6. The genital pores separated by two annuli.The colour of living specimens varies brownish to greenish. The dorsal surface of preserved specimens is bright greyish with two dark paramedian longitudinal stripes, along the entire length.
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- Europe
- Recorded from
- Serbia
Biology
Known from one spring in Western Serbia. Collected in a rheopsammocrene( seeping rheocrene with sandy-gravel substratum) spring in deciduous forest dominated by the common beech
Original description
V. Pešić and C. Grosser, Dina serbica, a new species of leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) from Serbia, based on morphological and molecular evidence, Ecol. Monten., vol. 51, pp. 1–14, Feb. 2022.