Bipolar distribution of marine fish leeches (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae)
Epshtein, V.M. (1970). Bipolar distribution of marine fish leeches (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae), in: Volyanitsky, V.A. (Ed.) Problems of Marine Parasitology: Materials from the 1st All-Union Symposium on Parasites and Diseases of Marine Organisms, Sevastopol, 1970. pp. 145-148
In: Volyanitsky, V.A. (Ed.) (1970). Problems of Marine Parasitology: Materials from the 1st All-Union Symposium on Parasites and Diseases of Marine Organisms, Sevastopol, 1970. (English translation, National Research Council of Canadian Libraries, Ottawa, Ontario, 1974). Nauka: Kiev, more
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| Keywords |
Leeches
Hirudinea [WoRMS]; Piscicolidae Johnston, 1865 [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal |
| Abstract |
There are no published data on whether the bipolar distribution is characteristic of the fish leeches. The data in the Table show that in contrast to other sub-familiies of fish leeches, the bipolar distribution is characteristic of the sub-family Platybdellinae. Only four species have been discovered at the boundaries of the tropical regions of the World Oceans: Austrobdella translucens, Badham (Australia, New South Wales); Platybdella michaelseni Johansson (Southwestern Australia, Freemantle); Malmiana stellata (Moore) (South Africa, Natal), and Marsipobdella sacculat Moore, (California). |
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