Vampire in the darkness: A new genus and species of Land leech exclusively bloodsucking cave-dwelling bats from China (Hirudinda: Arhynchobdellida: Haemadipsidae)

Taifu Huang, Zhiwei Liu, Xiaoyan Gong, Tao Wu, Hui Liu, Jiaxin Deng, Youxiang Zhang, Qingzhong Peng, Libiao Zhang, Zhixiao Liu

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)257-272
Number of pages16
JournalZootaxa
Volume4560
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 25 2019

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Animal Science and Zoology

Keywords

  • Cave-dwelling bats
  • DNA taxonomy
  • Land leeches
  • Phylogeny
  • Sinospelaeobdella gen. n.
  • Sinospelaeobdella wulingensis sp. n.

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