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Hemiclepsis tumniniana
· Glossiphoniidae
External morphology
Small leech, dorsum brown or orange, with seven rows of white or yellow spots (spots of the central row are joined to a broad white or yellow stripe, while spots in other rows may disappear in large specimens); seven rows of very low tubercles; posterior sucker whitish, with dense, diffuse brown dots
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- Asia
- Recorded from
- Russia
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.