The Eyes Have It: Long-Distance Dispersal by an Intraorbital Leech Parasite of Birds

Mark E. Siddall; Rebecca Rood-Goldman; Amalie Barrio; Christos Barboutis

doi:10.1645/12-172.1

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Mark E. Siddall, Rebecca Rood-Goldman,¹ Amalie Barrio,² Christos Barboutis³

¹Department of Biology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610;
²The Spence School, New York, New York 10128;
³Antikythira Bird Observatory, Hellenic Ornithological Society, Themistokleous 80, GR-10681, Athens, Greece, and Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71409, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

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A leech was found parasitizing the ocular orbit of a common redstart captured during a faunistic survey of Antikythira in the Aegean Sea during the spring migration of 2012. Morphological and molecular characterizations placed the leech in the mucous-membrane specific leech family Praobdellidae and definitively as the species Parapraobdella lineata. This is the first record of any leech parasitizing a passerine bird, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, and the first of a praobdellid leech on any avian host.

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Mark E. Siddall, Rebecca Rood-Goldman, Amalie Barrio, and Christos Barboutis "The Eyes Have It: Long-Distance Dispersal by an Intraorbital Leech Parasite of Birds," Journal of Parasitology 99(6), 1137-1139, (1 December 2013). https://doi.org/10.1645/12-172.1

Published: 1 December 2013

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