WoRMS taxon details
original description
Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1851). Annulaten. <em>Dr. A. Th. v. Middendorff's Reise in den äussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens. St. Petersburg : Buchdr. der K. Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 2 Zoologie (1 Wirbellose Thiere): 1-24., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37047711 page(s): 20, plate 1, figure 1; note: Russia, parasite of Coregonus peled (as Salmo peled) [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated but Acanthobdella peledina is clearly named after its host, the freshwater northern white-fish, Coregonus peled, common name as the peled (or variants of peled) across Europe and Asia [details]
Type locality Russia, not further geolocated, parasitic on freshwater Coregonus peled (as Salmo peled) [details]
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