WoRMS name details
original description
Meyer, Marvin C. (1940). A revision of the leeches (Piscicolidae) living on freshwater fishes of North America. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 59: 354-76., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3222552 page(s): 367, figure 7; note: Illinois, on freshwater fishes. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated but Illinobdella alba is assumed named because it is unpigmented. [details]
Habitat Taken in Illinois, where it is widely distributed, from Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque), Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, Helioperca incisor (Cuvier and Valenciennes), and Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill). [details]
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