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Issue: Vol. 3195 No. 1: 16 Feb. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-02-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3195.1.4
Page range: 57–60
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 3

Molecular Characterization of Glossiphonia elegans (Verrill, 1872) (Glossiphoniidae: Hirudinida) from its type locality, West River, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Museum Support Center MRC 534, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746
Department of Biological Sciences, Quinnipiac University, 275 Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut 06518
Department of Biological Sciences, Quinnipiac University, 275 Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut 06518
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208118, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Annelida Glossiphoniidae Hirudinida

Abstract

Clepsine elegans Verrill, 1872 was described based on material collected from the West River, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA (Verrill, 1872). Moore (1901) synonymized C. elegans with the European congener Glossiphonia complanata (Linnaeus, 1758) in view of the morphological similarities of the two species. Subsequently, all North American leeches bearing 6 eyespots and a pair of paramedial lines were considered Glossiphonia complanata. Using specimens collected from Ontario and Michigan, Siddall et al. (2005) resurrected Glossiphonia elgans (Verrill, 1872), because specimens collected from Ontario, Canada and Michigan, USA showed considerable genetic distinction from, and did not form monophyletic group with, European specimens of G. complanata.

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