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Hemiclepsis schrencki
· Glossiphoniidae
External morphology
Medium-sized leech, dorsum smooth, orange, with seven rows of ovate yellow spots (spots in the lateral rows are located on the edge of the last annulus of each somite); posterior sucker with large yellow spots. Resembles Hemiclepsis marginata but could be distinguished from it by larger, ovate yellow spots (vs. smaller, rounded spots) and the presence of the central row of spots (vs. the lack of this feature)
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- Asia
- Recorded from
- Russia, Japan
Original description
Bolotov, I. N.; Klass, A. L.; Kondakov, A. V.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Filippov, B. Y.; Bogan, A. E.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Lunn, Z.; Chan, N.; Aksenova, O. V.; Dvoryankin, G. A.; Chapurina, Y. E.; Kim, S. K.; Kolosova, Y. S.; Konopleva, E. S.; Lee, J. H.; Makhrov, A. A.; Palatov, D. M.; Sayenko, E. M.; Spitsyn, V. M.; Sokolova, S. E.; Tomilova, A. A.; Win, T.; Zubrii, N. A.; Vinarski, M. V. (2019). Freshwater mussels house a diverse mussel-associated leech assemblage. Scientific Reports. 9(1): 1-22, supplements.