Annelida, Hirudinida, Stibarobdella moorei (Oka, 1910): new distribution and host records

By

Wunderlich, Alison Carlos
Gadig, Otto Bismarck Fazzano
Vaske Júnior, Teodoro
Pinheiro, Marcelo Antônio Amaro, 1964-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011-5-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

7

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

360--362

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/7.3.360

 

Abstract

The present report is the northernmost capture of the piscicolid leech Stibarobdella moorei in the western South Atlantic Ocean. This is also the first time S. moorei is found associated to a batoid fish in the Brazilian coast, the eyespot skate Atlantoraja cyclophora. Stibarobdella moorei was found fixed in the dorsal side of a male eyespot skate, caught by bottom trawl around of the São Paulo coast, southeastern Brazil. A brief description of the morphology of the parasite and a discussion on the taxonomic status of the S. moorei are presented.