Nais communis 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

11. Nais communis Piguet, 1906

Geographic distribution.

Cosmopolitan species. In the Russian tundra: Murmansk Region ( Stalmakova 1974; Finogenova 1975; Timm and Popchenko 1978), the Pechora River delta ( Baturina 2018), Vaygach Island ( Leshko et al. 2008), the Vashutkiny lakes system ( Finogenova 1966), lakes in the More-yu River basin, Lake Bolshoy Ngosovey ( Baturina and Loskutova 2010), Lake Ambarty and some other lakes in the Korotaikha River basin ( Popchenko 1978), lakes in the Kara River basin, lakes in the Malaya Usa River basin, lakes in the Bolshaya Usa River basin ( Baturina et al. 2014b), the Yamal Peninsula ( Stepanov 2016), northern part of Western Siberia ( Zaloznyj 1984), the Kolyma River basin ( Morev et al. 1985).

Location.

Lake Bolshoy Kharbey (67°32'44.2"N, 62°55'22.3"E; 67°32'49.9"N, 62°53'40.1"E; 67°34'3.5"N, 62°52'17.9"E); Lake K1 (67°36'27.6"N, 62°51'58.4"E); Lake D1 (67°35'52.8"N, 62°53'52.6"E); Lake Golovka (67°36'06"N, 62°55'28.6"E; 67°35'50"N, 62°55'25.3"E); Lake L (67°35'44.5"N, 62°49'39.2"E), temporary pond near Kharbey (67°58'00"N; 62°34'60"E).

Ecology.

In bulk of the studied water bodies, N. communis was observed on silted sand, boulders with moss and algal cover, and submerged macrophytes (depth 0.3-1.2 m). In Lake Golovka, it lives on a silted substrate at a depth of 7.5 m. It was also found in small lakes with moss mats floating off shore.