Abstract
Three species of marine leeches, Branchellion torpedinis Savigny, 1822, Pontobdella muricata (Linnaeus, 1758), and Stibarobdella moorei (Oka, 1910), were collected from Pteromylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817), Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758), and Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758, respectively, captured during a cruise aboard the R/V “Akdeniz SU” from depths of 10, 75 and 125 m in Antalya Bay, on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Of these marine leeches, Branchellion torpedinis is recorded for the first time from Turkish waters on a new elasmobranch host, P. bovinus. In addition, R. miraletus is a new host record for Stibarobdella moorei, and Pontobdella muricata is recorded for the second time on its previously known host, D. pastinaca, from Antalya Bay.
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Funding was provided by the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of Akdeniz University, Project No: 2014.01.0111.001, which supported the master theses of Ilaria De Meo and Claudia Miglietta, co-supervised by Erhan Mutlu and M. Cengiz Deval, respectively. The authors warmly thank Dr. Argun A. Özak from the Natural History Museum London, UK, for his valuable advice.
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Başusta, N., De Meo, I., Miglietta, C. et al. Some marine leeches and first record of Branchellion torpedinis Savigny, 1822 (Annelida, Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) from elasmobranchs in Turkish waters, with new host records. Mar Biodiv 46, 713–716 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-015-0411-z
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