Description and taxonomic analysis of a tuberculated turtle leech from the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA, provisionally identified as Placobdella multilineata Moore, 1953 (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae)
Author
Sawyer, Roy T.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-06-23
4991
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1
35
journal article
5975
10.11646/zootaxa.4991.1.1
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OUTGROUP:
PLACOBDELLA PARASITICA
NORTH CAROLINA
Tyrrell County.
GUM
NECK
,
NEAR FWB CHURCH
[
35.712480
,
-76.114413
]:
PP-1
[
26 May 2017
, 1 recently fed specimen, on snapping turtle,
Chelydra serpentina
, on land,
36.5 mm
]
. GUM NECK, 460
GRAPEVINE LANDING ROAD
[
35.719759
,
-76.107886
]:
PP-2
[
3 May 2018
,
1 specimen
with some blood in gut, on mud turtle,
Kinosternum subrubrum
, on land, 22.0 mm];
PP-3
[
10 Oct 2013
, 1 unfed specimen,
on aluminium trap
,
12.8 mm
];
PP-4a
[
27 May 2019
, 1 brooding adult with numerous hatchlings on belly,
on aluminium trap
,
39.8 mm
];
PP-4b
[hatchlings of
PP-4a
]
.