Fish leeches (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) in the Antarctic seas from the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Epshtein, V.M. (1970). Fish leeches (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) in the Antarctic seas from the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in: Volyanitsky, V.A. (Ed.) Problems of Marine Parasitology: Materials from the 1st All-Union Symposium on Parasites and Diseases of Marine Organisms, Sevastopol, 1970. pp. 147-150
In: Volyanitsky, V.A. (Ed.) (1970). Problems of Marine Parasitology: Materials from the 1st All-Union Symposium on Parasites and Diseases of Marine Organisms, Sevastopol, 1970. (English translation, National Research Council of Canadian Libraries, Ottawa, Ontario, 1974). Nauka: Kiev, meer
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| Trefwoorden |
Leeches
Hirudinea [WoRMS]; Piscicolidae Johnston, 1865 [WoRMS]
Marien/Kust |
| Abstract |
The fish leeches from the Antarctic have been studied most inadequately. The literature contains descriptions of 9 species from the genera Antarctobdella, Austrobdella, Cryobdella, Cryobdellina, Oxytonostoma, Pontobdella, Trachelobdellina, and Trulliobdella (Harding, 1922; Moore, 1938, 1957; Brinkmann, 1948; Dollfus, 1965; Epshtein, 1967, 1968). There are very little data on the geographical distribution and the ecology of the species. The present communication contains some information on the leeches collected by Soviet Antarctic Expeditions in 1956, 1957, 1960, 1963 and 1966. The collections contain 6 species of which two are new species. |
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