Haemopis lateromaculata Mathers 1963 ...

• Main Authors: Madill, Jacqueline, Hovingh, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Clitellata; Arhynchobdellida; Haemopidae; Haemopis; Haemopis lateromaculata; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631624; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5631624

Haemopis lateromaculata Mathers 1963 Synonym: Percymoorensis lateromaculata (Mathers 1963) General distribution: Nearctic (Figures 2 D, 3C, Table 2). Newfoundland: Museum specimens (identified by JM): CMNA 1982–0654: Patrick Cove (Placentia Bay); CMNA 1985–0378: Point Lance at St. Mary’s Bay. Both records are on the Avalon Peninsula. Previously unreported for Canada, these records are the first outside of Iowa and Minnesota (Mathers 1963). Notes on the species. The unusual conditions under which Haemopis lateromaculata was found follows: On November 15, 1981, Cecelia McGrath in Patrick Cove noticed large, black worms heading across her lawn. R. Morris, Agriculture Canada, described the animals as “ 5–7 cm long, olive dorsally with small, black irregular flecks,…ventrally black, sucker large, and light, yellow, longitudinal stripes.” On November 8, 1985, D.G. Walsch found another H. lateromaculata in a freshwater well in Point Lance. All species of Haemopidae are amphibious, i.e., they can swim and crawl in ... : Published as part of Madill, Jacqueline & Hovingh, Peter, 2007, Freshwater leech (Annelida: Hirudinida) distribution in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and adjacent regions: check-list, new records, new pigmentation forms, and Pleistocene refugia, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 1657 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179881 ...