DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15144762
title: Table 5 in Alboglossiphonia afroalpina sp. nov. and Alboglossiphonia buniana sp. nov. - two new leech species from Africa and revision of the genus Alboglossiphonia Lukin, 1976 in Africa

description: Table 5. Characteristics of African Alboglossiphonia species (north of the Sahara), Palaearctic. Based on Gouda (2010) with additions from Nesemann and Neubert (1999), Jueg (2008), Oosthuizen et al. (1988), El Shimy (1990).
A. hyalina (O. F. Müller, 1774)A. iberica Jueg, 2008A. polypompholyx Oosthuizen, Hussein & El-Shimy, 1988A. disuqi El-Shimy, 1990A. levis Gouda, 2010Shape and sizeoval to pear-shaped, broadly oval at rest, up to 10 mm long, up to 5 mm wideelongated oval at rest, up to 16 mm long, up to 6 mm wideoval to oblong when at rest, up to 13 mm long, up to 5 mm (?) wideelongate-oval at rest, widest behind the middle, 7 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, dorsally convex, ventrally flatelongate-oval, up to 8mm long, up to 3mm wideHead regionbluntly roundedbluntly roundedslightly pointednot deposed, no narrowing of the neckdiscontinuedBasic color of living animalsorange-amber, rarely yellowish to white-greyblue, green, turquoise, beige, brownish, yellowish, head and sides transparentlight brown with dark brown chromatophoressnow-white, slightly transparentgreenishMottle/patternnonoirregular dark brown longitudinal stripesdark brown pigments on the tubercles of the central crest (on a2), irregularly also on other warts on a2irregularly arranged pattern of dark green chromatophoresPapillae and tuberclesfinely granulated by faint even papillaesmooth or small regularly arranged sensory papillae12-19 large papillae per annulus, irregularly arranged, many small papillaeApprox. 20 warts of unequal size per annulus, median row of warts like a crest, small papillaesmooth, without papillae except minute papillae in cranial suckerEyes6, 1st pair mostly separate, 2nd and 3rd often fused, also absent6, 1st pair mostly fused, 2nd and 3rd often fused, also missing6, 1st pair fused, 2nd and 3rd pair with large space between and fused6, 1st pair mostly fused, 2nd and 3rd often fused, also missing6, 1st pair mostly fused, 2nd and 3rd often fused, various eye positionsCranial suckerlarge, broad, bowl-shapedpointed transversely oval, evenly curved in front, mostly with a blunt edge behind, filled inNarrow transverse oval, evenly arched in front and behind, bowl-shapedbowl-shaped with a thickened edgecup-shaped, with a thickened rimMouthsmall, in the center of cranial suckersmall, slightly above center of cranial suckersmall, in the center of cranial suckersubapical positionsmall, in the center of cranial suckerCaudal suckerlarge, ± circular,> than half the maximum body widthsmall, ± circular, <half the maximum body widthsmall, ± circular, <half the maximum body widthsmall, ± orbicular (?), <half maximum body width, narrow crescent-shaped margin visible dorsallysmall, circular, <1/3 of maximum body widthPairs of crop caeca6, ± evenly curved, only the posterior branched7, angled, all branched7, all branched67, bilobedGonopores12, separated by 2 annuli2, separated by 2 annuli12, separated by 2 annuliEggs/juveniles30-60200-40030-50?13-25FoodGastropodaGastropodaGastropoda (possibly only Bulinus truncatus)Gastropoda (Gyraulus costulatus, Biomphalaria alexandrina, evtl. Theodoxus niloticus)Gastropoda (all species offered), oligochaetes (esp. Tubifex)Biotoperivers, lakes, pondssources and streams in the colline and montane regionsstreams, rivers and canals, on stones, never on plantsstream and channels, under stones and at the base of water lilies (Eichhornia crassipes)shallow, muddy, polluted calm waterDistributionWestern, Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Italy, not on the Iberian Peninsula, to Central Asia, Northwest AfricaSouthern Iberian Peninsula, Morocco (Atlas Mountains)Egypt (Nile between Luxor and Delta), Ethiopia (?)Egypt (Nile and irrigation canals in the Nile Delta)Egypt (Al Sont Canal in Asyut)
description: Published as part of Jueg, Uwe, 2023, Alboglossiphonia afroalpina sp. nov. and Alboglossiphonia buniana sp. nov. - two new leech species from Africa and revision of the genus Alboglossiphonia Lukin, 1976 in Africa, pp. 1 in Evolutionary Systematics 7 (1) on page 1, DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.7.94507