title: Genetic diversity of freshwater leeches in Lake Gusinoe (eastern Siberia, Russia).
abstract: The study of leeches from Lake Gusinoe and its adjacent area offered us the possibility to determine species diversity. As a result, an updated species list of the Gusinoe Hirudinea fauna (Annelida, Clitellata) has been compiled. There are two orders and three families of leeches in the Gusinoe area: order Rhynchobdellida (families Glossiphoniidae and Piscicolidae) and order Arhynchobdellida (family Erpobdellidae). In total, 6 leech species belonging to 6 genera have been identified. Of these, 3 taxa belonging to the family Glossiphoniidae (Alboglossiphonia heteroclita f. papillosa, Hemiclepsis marginata, and Helobdella stagnalis) and representatives of 3 unidentified species (Glossiphonia sp., Piscicola sp., and Erpobdella sp.) have been recorded. The checklist gives a contemporary overview of the species composition of leeches and information on their hosts or substrates. The validity of morphological identification of each taxon has been verified by phylogenetic approach with a molecular marker adopted for a DNA barcoding of most invertebrates.
authors.affiliation: Limnological Institute, 3 Ulan-Batorskaja Street, Irkutsk 664033, Russia.
authors.forename: Irina A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Kaygorodova
authors.affiliation: Limnological Institute, 3 Ulan-Batorskaja Street, Irkutsk 664033, Russia.
authors.forename: Nadezhda
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mandzyak
authors.affiliation: Limnological Institute, 3 Ulan-Batorskaja Street, Irkutsk 664033, Russia ; Irkutsk State University, 5 Sukhe-Bator Street, Irkutsk 664003, Russia.
authors.forename: Ekaterina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petryaeva
authors.affiliation: Institute of General and Experimental Biology, 6 Sakhyanova Street, Ulan-Ude 670047, Russia.
authors.forename: Nikolay M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Pronin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D014644:Genetic Variation; D060106:Lakes; D007865:Leeches / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012800:Siberia