Alboglossiphonia cf. papillosa (Braun, 1805)

Klass, Anna L., Sokolova, Svetlana E., Kondakov, Alexander V., Bespalaya, Yulia V., Gofarov, Mikhail Yu., Tomilova, Alena A., Vikhrev, Ilya V. & Bolotov, Ivan N., 2018, An example of a possible leech-bryozoan association in freshwater, ZooKeys 794, pp. 23-30 : 23

Alboglossiphonia cf. papillosa (Braun, 1805)

Material examined.

RUSSIA: Eastern Siberia, Yakutia, a floodplain lake of the Lena River near the city of Yakutsk, 62.3076° N, 129.8999° E, 25 specimens from interstitial spaces between zooids of a Plumatella aff. fungosa colony, Bolotov leg. (voucher no. RMBH: Hir13).

Comments.

Current taxonomy of this leech genus is uncertain. Closely related specimens of Alboglossiphonia cf. papillosa with homologous or very similar COI gene sequence (acc. nos. KM095100 and KM095101) (uncorrected p-distance <1%) were collected from the Gusinoye Lake, Yenisei Basin, Eastern Siberia ( Kaygorodova et al. 2014). The BLAST search with the 18S rRNA gene sequence returns the nearest members among the Alboglossiphonia taxa from the USA (acc. nos. AF115983 and AY962410) ( Apakupakul et al. 1999; Siddall et al. 2005).