Erpobdella obscura Verrill 1872 ...

• Main Authors: Madill, Jacqueline, Hovingh, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Clitellata; Arhynchobdellida; Erpobdellidae; Erpobdella; Erpobdella obscura; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631637; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5631637

Erpobdella obscura (Verrill 1872) Synonym: Nephelopsis obscura Verrill 1872 Common name: Bait leech General distribution: Nearctic (Figures 2 H, 4D, 6, 7, Tables 1, 2). Newfoundland: Survey: Site 7 (CMNA 2006–0023), Site 18 (CMNA 2006–0022); Museum specimen: CMNA 1900–5994; Literature: Pawlowski (1948) at Grand Falls. Labrador: Survey: Site 20 (CMNA 2006–0021), Site 21 (CMNA 2006–0020), Site 22 (CMNA 2006– 0019), Site 23 (CMNA 2006–0018), Site 28 (CMNA 2006–0017), and Site 29 (CMNA 2006–0016); Museum specimen: CMNA 1988–0127 (Figure 4 D). Notes on the species. Verrill’s (1872) description of Erpobdella obscura strongly resembles some of the Newfoundland and Labrador specimens but there is also a previously unpublished color variation. Klemm (1985) describes the normal appearance of Erpobdella obscura (Figures 6 F, 7B, E, I, J) as “color variable, dorsum greenish-brown, covered with sparse scattered black or light colored blotches, interlacing or irregular spots, or plain (uniform), no striping…” 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 pages 11-16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179881 ...