The Fish Leech Limnotrachelobdella sinensis (Hirudinida, Piscicolidae) Invaded Kyoto Prefecture, Central Japan

Biogeography Volume 11 Page 17-21 published_at 2009-08-20
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The Fish Leech Limnotrachelobdella sinensis (Hirudinida, Piscicolidae) Invaded Kyoto Prefecture, Central Japan
Creator
Tanaka Masaharu
Source Title
Biogeography
Volume 11
Start Page 17
End Page 21
Abstract
Specimens of Limnotrachelobdella sinensis (Blanchard, 1896) were collected from the inner surface of the operculum of silver crucian carp Carassius auratus langsdorfii in the Kizu River, a tributary of the Yodo River, in Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture, central Japan in February 2007. This is the first record of L. sinensis in this prefecture. The previous record of the species in Japan was only from the lower reaches of the Yodo River in Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture during 2000–2005, and the present collection indicates that the leech has been expanding its geographic range in the Yodo River system. Possibility that the species was introduced from outside Japan is discussed.
Keywords
Limnotrachelobdella sinensis
Carassius auratus langsdorfii
silver crucian carp
leech, parasite
range expansion
NDC
Biology [ 460 ]
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
日本生物地理学会
Date of Issued 2009-08-20
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Publish Type Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 1345-0662
[NCID] AA11381320