Piscicola sp.

Fedorova, Lyudmila I. & Kaygorodova, Irina A., 2022, First data on the Hirudinea fauna of lotic ecosystems of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area (Russia), ZooKeys 1082, pp. 73-85 : 73

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1082.71859

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scientific name

Piscicola sp.
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Piscicola sp.

New species records.

A single specimen from the Chumpas River (61°16'24"N, 74°42'32"E).

Morphological characteristics.

Piscine leech has middle size, its body length is 22 mm and diameter is 3.5 mm. Sucker size is commensurate with the width of the body. Dorsal pigmentation is absent, unlike the widespread P. geometra or other known species.