Open AccessPrisutnost pijavice Pontobdella muricata (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) na hrskavičnjačama u Tirenskom moru (Srednje Sredozemlje)
Author(s) -
Teresa Bottari,
Adriana Profeta,
Daniela Giordano,
Francesco Smedile,
Gina La Spada,
Gabriella Gaglio,
Paola Rinelli
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
acta adriatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1846-0453
pISSN - 0001-5113
DOI - 10.32582/aa.58.2.3
Subject(s) - leech , biology , trawling , mitochondrial dna , zoology , gene , genetics , ecology , fishing , world wide web , computer science
This paper provides the first report of the leech, Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758), in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The leech was found on the brown ray, Raja miraletus (Linnaeus 1758), and on the spotted ray, Raja montagui (Fowler, 1910), caught by trawling during autumn 2014.Complete sequence of 18S rRNA gene, COI mitochondrial gene and partial sequences of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene corroborate the determination based on morphological characteristics.