A new species of Orobdella (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Orobdellidae) from Primorye Territory,Russian Far East |
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| Authors: | Takafumi Nakano Larisa Prozorova |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan;2. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok Russia |
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| Abstract: | A quadrannulate leech species, Orobdella ghilarovi sp. nov., from Primorye Territory in the southern Russian Far East is described. Phylogenetic analyses using nuclear 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, histone H3, mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, tRNACys, tRNAMet, 12S rRNA, tRNAVal, 16S rRNA, tRNALeu and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 markers showed that O. ghilarovi forms a fully supported clade with a monophyletic lineage comprising two species, O. kawakatsuorum and O. koikei, inhabiting Hokkaido, Japan. Quadrannulate Orobdella leeches distributed in the southern Primorye Territory have been identified as O. whitmani, which was originally described in Japan; these past records should be amended based on the taxonomic conclusions of this study. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D91AC1C-5868-4F0B-A09D-423F7B50206C |
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| Keywords: | Erpobdelliformes terrestrial macrophagous molecular phylogeny misidentification |
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