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Glossiphonia taymyrensis
· Glossiphoniidae
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- Asia
- Recorded from
- Siberia
Biology
77.8% of specimens are melanic (7 melanic vs. 2 light-coloured)
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.