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Johanssonia extrema

Utevsky, Kovalchuk, Kovalchuk, Utevsky & Chernyshev, 2019 · Piscicolidae

Habitat & range

Habitat
Saltwater
Region
Asia
Recorded from
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench

Original description

Utevsky, Serge; Kovalchuk, Anastasiia; Kovalchuk, Nataliia; Utevsky, Andriy; Chernyshev, Alexei V. (2019). A new species of the genus Johanssonia Selensky, 1914 (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) collected in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench at the greatest depth ever recorded for fish leeches. Progress in Oceanography. 176: 102133.

doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102133 · sciencedirect.com