Some marine leeches and first record of Branchellion torpedinis Savigny, 1822 (Annelida, Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) from elasmobranchs in Turkish waters, with new host records
MARINE BIODIVERSITY, vol.46, no.3, pp.713-716, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 46 Issue: 3
- Publication Date: 2016
- Doi Number: 10.1007/s12526-015-0411-z
- Journal Name: MARINE BIODIVERSITY
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.713-716
- Keywords: Branchellion torpedinis, Pontobdella muricata, Stibarobdella moorei, Marine leech, Antalya Bay, Eastern Mediterranean
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: No
Abstract
Three species of marine leeches, Branchellion torpedinis Savigny, 1822, Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758), and Stibarobdella moorei (Oka, 1910), were collected from Pteromylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817), Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758), and Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758, respectively, captured during a cruise aboard the R/V "Akdeniz SU" from depths of 10, 75 and 125 m in Antalya Bay, on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Of these marine leeches, Branchellion torpedinis is recorded for the first time from Turkish waters on a new elasmobranch host, P. bovinus. In addition, R. miraletus is a new host record for Stibarobdella moorei, and Pontobdella muricata is recorded for the second time on its previously known host, D. pastinaca, from Antalya Bay.