caa a22 4500 467950784 CHVBK 20180323165702.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19891101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02392951 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02392951 (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00027023 Oosthuizen J. Department of Zoology, University of Pretoria, 0002, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa aut Redescription of the African fish leech Batracobdelloides tricarinata (Blanchard, 1897) ( Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae ) [Elektronische Daten] [J. Oosthuizen] A study of well over one thousand specimens provided proof to put the conspecifity of the two supposed species originally described asHelobdella tricarinata andClepsine nilotica beyond all doubt. Evidence is presented which indicates that the striking changes in body-shape and drastic alteration in the appearance of the tuberculation at different stages of reproduction and nutrition combined with individual variation in tuberculation, annulation, and in the arrangement and pigmentation of the eyes were responsible for earlier confusion as to the identity of this species. Since the early accounts were incomplete and contained some important errorsBatracobdelloides tricarinata is redescribed and, for the first time, comprehensively figured. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989 Batracobdelloides tricarinata nationallicence Hirudinea nationallicence African fish leech nationallicence taxonomy nationallicence morphology nationallicence bionomics nationallicence Hydrobiologia Kluwer Academic Publishers 184/3(1989-11-01), 153-164 0018-8158 184:3<153 1989 184 10750 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392951 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392951 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Oosthuizen J. Department of Zoology, University of Pretoria, 0002, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Hydrobiologia Kluwer Academic Publishers 184/3(1989-11-01), 153-164 0018-8158 184:3<153 1989 184 10750 NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00027023 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer