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- Diversity and Distribution of Aquatic Leeches in Wetlands of West Bengal
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1 Zoological Survey of India, 27, J. L. Nehru Road, F.P.S. Building, Kolkata 7000016, IN
1 Zoological Survey of India, 27, J. L. Nehru Road, F.P.S. Building, Kolkata 7000016, IN
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Journal of Environment and Sociobiology, Vol 7, No 2 (2010), Pagination: 209-211Abstract
Leeches (Hirudinea) are recognized as a very important or significant annelid group of versatile habitat. They are found in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Aquatic species are found in freshwater, brackishwater and sea water. These leeches are found sometimes attached with the animal body surface and sometimes with the plants. Lower leaf of plant, stem and ischolar_main of the floating plants are the favourite habitats of leeches. Marine and brackish water leeches stay attached at the ventral region of the animals (Harding and Moore, 1927). Several freshwater species are found in attached condition with molluscs and insects (Ghosh, 1998; Bondyopadhyay and Mandal, 2004).
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- Bandyopadhyay, P. K. and Mandal, C. K. 2004. On the occurrence of five leeches, Barbronia weberi, Glossiphonia annandalei, Glossiphonia heteroclita, Glossiphonia reticulata and Placobdella undulata in West Bengal. Rec. zool. Surv. India, 105(part 3-4) : 93-101.
- Ghosh, G. C. 1998. Leech fauna of West Bengal. State Fauna Series 3. Zool. Surv. India Part 10 : 227-249.
- Harding, W. A. and Moore, J. P. 1927. Fauna British India Including Ceylon and Burma : Hirudinea : 1-XXXVIII & 1-302 (Tailor & Francis, London).
- Mandal, C. K. 2004a. Paraclepsis gardensi (Hirudinea : Glossiphonidae) a new species of Leech from West Bengal, India. Rec. zool. Surv. India, 103(Part 1-2) : 111-114.
- Mandal, C. K. 2004 b. Placobdella harasundarai (Hirudinea : Glossiphonidae) a new species of leech from West Bengal, India. Rec. zool. Surv. India, 103(Part1-2) : 99-102.
- Mandal, C. K. 2004c. Endemic leech fauna of India. Rec. zool. Surv. India : 103 (Part 1-2) 103-110.
- A Note On Leech Faunal Diversity Of Rajasthan, India (annelida: Hirudinea)
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C. K. Mandal
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R. Mridha
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1 Zoological Survey of India FPS Building, Indian Museum Campus, 27 JL Nehru Road, Kolkata-700016, IN
2 Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar University Midnapur, West Bengal, IN
1 Zoological Survey of India FPS Building, Indian Museum Campus, 27 JL Nehru Road, Kolkata-700016, IN
2 Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar University Midnapur, West Bengal, IN
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Journal of Environment and Sociobiology, Vol 19, No 1 (2022), Pagination: 33-36Abstract
Being a prevalently arid state Rajasthan has a less diverse freshwater fauna including leeches. Till 2015 not more than 10 species were known from this state. Four survey trips by teams of Zoological Survey of India during 2016 and 2017 in places of Rajasthan could collect about 571 leech specimens. Taxonomic study of this collection has resulted in recording of 12 species; including two newly described species by one author (Mandal, and other associates) in 2018. Currently, 19 species are found from the state that includes 7 species yet unrecorded.Keywords
Leech; Taxonomy; Rajasthan; New records.References
- Chandra, M. 1983. A check-list of leeches. Rec. zool. Surv. India. 80(3-4): 265-290.
- Chandra, M. 1991. The Leeches of India - A Hand Book. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 1-117.
- Daniel, A. 1968. Annelida. In: A Hand Book for Zoological Collectors. 41-46 pp. (Published by Director Zoological Survey of India).
- Ghosh, G. C. 1998. Fauna of West Bengal, State Fauna Series, 3(10): 227-249. Zool. Surv. India, Calcutta.
- Harding, W. A. 1924. Descriptions of some new leeches from India, Burma, and Ceylon. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. London, ser., 9, 14: 489-499.
- Mandal, C. K. 2004. Checklist of the Hirudinea (Leech) of India. Rec. zool. Surv. India, 102(1-2): 41-46.
- Mandal, C. K., Paul P., Hasan, M. N. and Bandyopadhyay, P. K. 2018a.Placobdella bundiensis sp. nov. (Hirudinea: Glossiphonidae). A new species of leech from Rajasthan, India. Int. J. Adv. Re. Res. Basic Engg. Sci. Technol. (IJARBEST). 4(1): 18-23.
- Mandal, C. K., Paul, P., Hasan, M. N. and Bandyopadhyay, P. K. 2018b. Placobdella devkuntai sp. nov. (Hirudinea: Glossiphonidae). A new species of leech from Rajasthan, India. International Journal of Advanced Research in Basic Engineering Sciences and Technology (IJARBEST), 4(1): 24-29.
- Moore, J. P. 1924. Notes on some Asiatic leeches (Hirudinea) principally from China, Kashmir, and British India. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad. 76: 343-388.
- Moore, J. P. and Harding, W. A. 1927. Fauna of British India, Hirudinea. Taylor and Francis, London.
- Soota, T. D. and Ghosh, G. C. 1977. On some Indian leeches. Newsl. Zool. Surv. India, 3(6): 359-360.