Taxonomy and Melanism Patterns of Freshwater Leeches in the Genus Glossiphonia (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae) from Northeast Asia

• Published in: Diversity
• Main Authors: Ivan N. Bolotov, Tatyana A. Eliseeva, Alexander V. Kondakov, Alexander V. Kropotin, Olga V. Aksenova, Yulia V. Bespalaya, Oksana V. Travina, Mikhail Y. Gofarov, Sang Ki Kim, Jin Hee Lee, Maxim V. Vinarski
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2023
• Subjects: South Korea; Far East; Siberia; new species; cryptic coloration; freshwater hydrobionts; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Arctic; Leech; Percy; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/d15060756; https://doaj.org/article/28cb0f429796461d9c2c1b5a3051f6ff

Freshwater leeches belonging to the genus Glossiphonia Johnson, 1816 are fairly common benthic annelids in freshwater ecosystems throughout Eurasia, but the taxonomy of this group remains poorly resolved, and the species content of some local faunas is unsatisfactorily known. For example, it was tho...