Piguetiella blanci (Piguet, 1906)

Baturina, Maria A., Kaygorodova, Irina A. & Loskutova, Olga A., 2020, New data on species diversity of Annelida (Oligochaeta, Hirudinea) in the Kharbey lakes system, Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Russia), ZooKeys 910, pp. 43-78 : 43

17. Piguetiella blanci (Piguet, 1906)

Nais blanci Piguet, 1906

Geographic distribution.

Western Palaearctic, NE of the USA. In the Russian tundra: Murmansk Region ( Timm and Popchenko 1978, Finogenova 1975), the Pechora River delta ( Baturina 2018), the Vashutkiny lakes system ( Finogenova 1966), Lake Ambarty and some other lakes in the Korotaikha River basin ( Popchenko 1978), lakes in the Kara River basin ( Baturina and Loskutova 2010).

Location.

Lake Bolshoy Kharbey (67°34'34.3"N, 62°52'17.4"E; 67°34'N, 62°57'E; 67°34'3.5"N, 62°52'17.9"E; 67°33'48.2"N, 62°55'2.6"E; 67°32'49.9"N, 62°53'40.1"E); Lake L (67°35'44.5"N, 62°49'39.2"E), Lake K2 (67°32'56.1"N, 62°51'39.7"E); Lake K1 (67°36'27.6"N, 62°51'58.4"E; 67°36'17.6"N, 62°52'35"E); Lake Golovka (67°35'50"N, 62°55'25.3"E; 67°36'9.1"N, 62°55'50.6"E).

Ecology.

The species inhabits sandy and stony-sandy substrates with algae and moss at depths of 0.5-2.5 m except Lake Bolshoy Kharbey, where it occurs at a depth of 6.2 m.