PDF] New information on distribution of a marine leech

One leech was observed on the dorsal surface of Thornback Ray, Raja clavata, that was caught in 2013 in the Antalya, Turkey, a new record for the eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. New information on distribution of marine leech, Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) is given here. One leech was observed on the dorsal surface of Thornback Ray, Raja clavata  (Linnaeus, 1758) that was caught in 2013 in the Antalya, Turkey. This is a new record for the eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey.

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Frontiers Marine vampires: Persistent, internal associations between bacteria and blood-feeding marine annelids and crustaceans

R. T. Sawyer Leech Biology and Behaviour. xiv, 1065 pp. in three volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Price £115.00., Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Annotated checklist of the leech species diversity in the Maloe More Strait of Lake Baikal, Russia

New marine leech species of Branchellion Savigny, 1822 (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) and new host record of Pontobdella muricata in the Gulf of Tunis

Leeches in the extreme: Morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations to inhospitable habitats - ScienceDirect

A new subspecies of Trypanosoma cyclops found in the Australian terrestrial leech Chtonobdella bilineata, Parasitology

PDF] CHECKLIST AND DISTRIBUTION OF MARINE AND FRESHWATER LEECHES (ANNELIDA, CLITELLATA, HIRUDINEA) IN TUNISIA WITH IDENTIFICATION KEY

IDENTIFICATION AND LIFE CYCLE OF MARINE LEECH ISOLATED FROM CULTURED HYBRID GROUPER IN THE NORTHERN BALI WATERS OF INDONESIA

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PDF) Some new records of marine and freshwater leeches from Caribbean, southeastern U.S.A., eastern Pacific, and Okinawan animals.

PDF) A new marine leech Nototheniobdella sawyeri gen. et sp. n. from Antarctic seas (Hirudinea: Pisicolidae)

A new species of leech of the genus Placobdella (Hirudinida, Glossiphoniidae) from the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in Mississippi, USA

Some marine leeches and first record of Branchellion torpedinis Savigny, 1822 (Annelida, Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) from elasmobranchs in Turkish waters, with new host records