Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis

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Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Clade: Sedentaria
Class: Clitellata
Subclass: Hirudinea
Order: Arhynchobdellida
Family: Haemadipsidae
Genus: Tritetrabdella
Species:
T. kinabaluensis
Binomial name
Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis
Kappes, 2013

Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis is a species of terrestrial blood-feeding leech in the family Haemadipsidae. [1] It has been observed exclusively from Sabah, Malaysia. [1] The species is divided into two subspecies: Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis kinabaluensis and Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis inobongensis, the former being the typical subspecies. [1] [2] [3] The species epithet derives from the sacred mountain Mount Kinabalu. [2]

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Appearance

Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis has the following physical traits, regardless of subspecies: [2] [4]

Footnotes

Notes

  1. ↑ Textured rays on haemadipsid leeches' suckers to increase suction.

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 "Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis Kappes, 2013". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  2. 1 2 3 Kappes, Heike (2013-12-20). "Genetics and morphology of the genus Tritetrabdella (Hirudinea, Haemadipsidae) from the mountainous rain forests of Sabah, Borneo, reveal a new species with two new subspecies". Contributions to Zoology. 82 (4): 185–197. doi: 10.1163/18759866-08204003 . ISSN   1383-4517.
  3. ↑ "Taxonomy browser (Tritetrabdella kinabaluensis)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  4. ↑ Nakano, Takafumi; Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai; Nguyen, Tao Thien; Panha, Somsak (2016-05-20). "A new species of Tritetrabdella (Hirudinida: Hirudiniformes: Haemadipsidae) from northern Indochina". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 64: 105–116. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5354972.
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