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]
taxonomy source
Grube, A.E. (1851). Die familien der Anneliden, mit Angabe ihrer Gattungen und Arten. Ein systematischer Versuch. <em>Berlin, Nicolai'schen Buchhandlung.</em> 1-164., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.46818 [details]
From editor or global species database
Additional information acanthobdellids are permanent parasites of cold-water fish, especially salmonids and thymallids; Acanthobdella peledina is widespread and found in boreal region from Scandinavia, throughout boreal Siberia and Alaska; Acanthobdella livanowi appears confined to Kamchatka Peninsula of extreme eastern Siberia [details]
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