Clepsine elegans

Clepsine elegans

Classification

Class: Clitellata
Order: Rhynchobdellida
Family: Glossiphoniidae

Glossiphonia elegans, sometimes called the brook leech, is a species of freshwater jawless leech found in Canada and the United States. Taxonomy Glossiphonia elegans was first described in an 1872 article by Addison Emery Verrill published in the American Journal of Science. He named it Clespine elegans, describing it along with several other new Clespine species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

DescriptionGlossiphonia elegans, Wikipedia contributors

Clepsine elegans

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