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A Note On Leech Faunal Diversity Of Rajasthan, India (annelida: Hirudinea)


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1 Zoological Survey of India FPS Building, Indian Museum Campus, 27 JL Nehru Road, Kolkata-700016, India
2 Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar University Midnapur, West Bengal, India
     

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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.
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  • A Note On Leech Faunal Diversity Of Rajasthan, India (annelida: Hirudinea)

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Authors

C. K. Mandal
Zoological Survey of India FPS Building, Indian Museum Campus, 27 JL Nehru Road, Kolkata-700016, India
R. Mridha
Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar University Midnapur, West Bengal, India

Abstract


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.

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