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      The present state of the leech fauna (Annelida, Hirudinea) in the Upper Irtysh cascade of water reservoirs

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          Hirudinea is a small and ecologically important group of aquatic organisms. However, up to date, the leech fauna of Kazakhstan is poorly studied. The presence of large under-collected areas, such as the Upper Irtysh basin, makes biodiversity studies concerning these invertebrates from Kazakhstan relevant. In this paper, the latest information on species diversity of the freshwater hirudofauna of the Upper Irtysh cascade of water reservoirs, the Kazakhstan part of Irtysh River, is presented. It includes 10 free-living and parasitic species, of which 7 and 9 inhabit the Shulbinsk and the Bukhtarma reservoirs, respectively. These species belong to 2 orders, 3 families and 6 genera. The faunal list highlights four potentially new morphological species ( Alboglossiphonia sp., Erpobdella sp., Piscicola sp. 1 and Piscicola sp. 2). Besides them, another three species Erpobdella vilnensis , Helobdella stagnalis and Theromyzon tessulatum recorded for the first time in the area. The exact systematic position is stated for all leech taxa. Each species from the list accompanied with information on taxonomic synonymy, data on its geographic distribution, and brief summary of morphological and ecological characteristics.

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                Journal
                Zookeys
                Zookeys
                ZooKeys
                ZooKeys
                Pensoft Publishers
                1313-2989
                1313-2970
                2016
                7 June 2016
                : 596
                : 1-12
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Irkutsk State Agrarian University named after A.A. Ezhevsky, Timiryazev Street, 59, 664038 Irkutsk, Russia
                [2 ]Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Batorskaya Street, 3, 664033 Irkutsk; Russia
                [3 ]Irkutsk State University, Sukhe Bator Street, 5, 664003, Irkutsk, Russia
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Irina A. Kaygorodova ( irina@ 123456lin.irk.ru )

                Academic editor: S. James

                Article
                10.3897/zookeys.596.7886
                4926650
                27408572
                91b4d332-1abe-4714-9074-5fe57ff1b763
                Lyudmila I. Fedorova, Irina A. Kaygorodova

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 23 January 2016
                : 13 May 2016
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                Animal science & Zoology
                hirudinea,species diversity,upper irtysh water reservoirs
                Animal science & Zoology
                hirudinea, species diversity, upper irtysh water reservoirs

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