Glossiphonia sp. 2

Kaygorodova, Irina A., 2015, Annotated checklist of the leech species diversity in the Maloe More Strait of Lake Baikal, Russia, ZooKeys 545, pp. 37-52 : 41

Taxon classification Animalia Rhynchobdellea Glossiphoniidae

Glossiphonia sp. 2

New species records.

Kurma Bay, Lake Zama.

Morphological characteristics.

The size varies from 7 to 12 mm. This leech has a bright amber colour due to tiny pale brown pigment cells uniformly strewn along the body dorsally and one pair of dark longitudinal median rows (Fig. 3).

Ecological characteristics.

Glossiphonia sp. 2 occupies the same ecological niche as the previous Glossiphonia species, parasitizing small invertebrates preferentially molluscs.