Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparede , 1862

Baturina, Maria A., Kaygorodova, Irina A. & Loskutova, Olga A., 2020, New data on species diversity of Annelida (Oligochaeta, Hirudinea) in the Kharbey lakes system, Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Russia), ZooKeys 910, pp. 43-78 : 43

38. Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparede, 1862

Limnodrilus parvus Southern, 1909

Geographic distribution.

Cosmopolitan species. In the Russian tundra: Murmansk Region ( Stalmakova 1974; Veselov 1977; Timm and Popchenko 1978; Jakovlev 1982); the Pechora River delta ( Baturina 2018), Vaygach Island ( Leshko et al. 2008), Lake Ambarty and some other lakes in the Korotaikha River basin ( Popchenko 1978), lakes in the More-yu River basin ( Baturina and Loskutova 2010), the Norilsk`s group of lakes ( Vershinin 1960), the Ob River delta ( Timm and Abarenkov 2018), northern part of Western Siberia ( Zaloznyj 1984), the Gydansky and Yamal Peninsulas ( Stepanov 2016, 2017, 2018), the Lena River delta ( Gukov 1990).

Location.

Lake Bolshoy Kharbey (67°34'55.7"N, 62°57'44"E; 67°33'48.2"N, 62°55'2.6"E; 67°32'44.2"N, 62°55'22.3"E; 67°32'48.3"N, 62°53'49.7"E); Lake L (67°35'41.5"N, 62°49'34.7"E); Lake K2 (67°32'56.1"N, 62°51'39.7"E); Lake K1 (67°36'27.6"N, 62°51'58.4"E); Lake Golovka (67°36'9.4"N, 62°56'39.9"E; 67°36'9.1"N, 62°55'50.6"E).

Ecology.

The species is recorded in most lakes of the Kharbey system. Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri prefers silts, but it was also found on sandy-clay sediment and stones with algal cover (from the water edge to 5.2 m in depth).