Ecological zonation of the Baikal endemic piscine leeches of the genus <em>Baicalobdella</em> (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae)

Matveenko, E. Yu.; Kaygorodova, I. A.

doi:10.31951/2658-3518-2020-A-4-801

Ecological zonation of the Baikal endemic piscine leeches of the genus Baicalobdella (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae)

Authors

Matveenko, E. Yu. ¹
Kaygorodova, I. A. ¹

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31951/2658-3518-2020-A-4-801

Keywords:

Molecular delimitation, fish leeches, Baicalobdella, Lake Baikal.

Abstract

Molecular delimitation methods have revealed that the morphological homogenous species of the Baikal endemic fish leeches, Baicalobdella torquata (Grube, 1871), is a cryptic complex. The identified level of genetic differences allows us to assume the existence in Lake Baikal of two species within this complex, which are clearly separated geographically.