@article {Moser:2005lh,
	title = {Life history and distribution of the leech Oligobdella biannulata (Moore, 1900) (Euhirudinea : Glossiphoniidae)},
	journal = {Comparative Parasitology},
	volume = {72},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {17-21},
	publisher = {HELMINTHOLOGICAL SOC WASHINGTON},
	address = {C/O ALLEN PRESS INC, 1041 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST, LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA},
	abstract = {Oligobdella biannulata is a rare, endemic leech species originally described from a mountain stream near Blowing Rock, North Carolina, U.S.A. Specimens of O. biannulata were collected seasonally (fall 1999-summer 2002), documenting new county records from North Carolina and South Carolina and new state records from Georgia and Tennessee, U.S.A. Fifty-one percent of Desmognathus quadramaculatus and 50\% of Desmognathus marmoratus were parasitized with O. biannulata. Between late May and early July, O. biannulata leaves its salamander host to lay 15-30 bright yellow, yolky eggs and brood them on its ventral surface. Eggs hatch in 10-20 d, and in about 50 d both hatchlings and adult search for a blood meal. Oligobdella biannulata reattaches to its host between late August and early October. When a desmognathine salamander host is found the adult leech attaches and hatchlings leave the adult, attaching singly or in clusters on the limbs or axillary and inguinal regions of the salamander, blood feeding, and overwintering on the host.},
	keywords = {desmognathinae, Desmognathus marmoratus, Desmognathus quadramaculatus, Euhirudinea, Glossiphonidae, Hirudinea, Oligobdella biannulata, Rhynchobdellida, salamanders},
	author = {Moser, WE and Van Devender, RW and Klemm, DJ}
}
@article {Klemm:2003ek,
	title = {Biology of the leech Actinobdella inequiannulata Moore, 1901 (Annelida : Hirudinea : Rhynchobdellida : Glossiphoniidae), parasitic on the white sucker, Catostomus commersoni Lacepede, 1803, and the longnose sucker, Catostomus catostomus Forster, 1773, in },
	journal = {Comparative Parasitology},
	volume = {70},
	year = {2003},
	pages = {120-127},
	publisher = {HELMINTHOLOGICAL SOC WASHINGTON},
	address = {C/O ALLEN PRESS INC, 1041 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST, LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA},
	abstract = {Actinobdella inequiannulata was found on the white sucker. Catostomus commersoni, and less frequently on the longnose sucker, Catostomus catostomus, in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Catostomus commersoni parasitized with Act. inequiannulata was collected from July to October 1973 and May to October 1974. In May and October, less than 3\% of the fish carried leeches. In July, 80\% of the fish were parasitized with an average of 1.5 leeches/fish. Observations on leech weight suggest that young leeches attach to fish from May to September, some mature in July, and a second generation of leeches reparasitize the fish in August and September. The mean size of leeches on suckers increased from May until July, after which the size remained relatively constant. Leeches produced characteristic lesions on the opercula of suckers. Fully developed lesions on fish opercula produced by aggregated leeches had varying amounts of central erosion, extravasation, dermal and epidermal hyperplasia, and necrosis.},
	keywords = {Actinobdella annectens, Actinobdella inequiannulata, Actinobdella pediculata, Actinobdella triannulata, Algonquin Provincial Park, benthic invertebrate, Canada, Catostomus catostomus, Catostomus commersoni, feeding behavior, fish parasite, freshwater annelid, leech, longnose sucker, Myzobdella lugubris, Ontario, parasitism, white sucker},
	author = {Klemm, DJ and Daniels, BA and Moser, WE and Lester, RJG}
}
