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{ "pk": 39798, "title": "New distributional data for the Mediterranean medicinal leech Hirudo verbana Carena, 1820 (Hirudinea, Hirudinidae) in Italy, with a note on its feeding on amphibians", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Scarce data are currently available about the distribution of the Mediterranean medicinal leech \nHirudo verbana\n in Italy, and most of the known occurrence localities are based on records collected in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, which were not confirmed in the last decades, mostly due to a lack of surveys. Accordingly, the available knowledge on the distribution of the species is far from being updated and representative, although a significant negative trend of \nH. verbana\n throughout the country is supposed. The lack of sound distribution data is a significant shortfall, which hinders the implementation of the monitoring of the species as required by the Article 17 of the “Habitats Directive” on the species of Union concern. To provide recent, validated distributional data for the Mediterranean medicinal leech in Italy to be used as baseline data for further surveys and monitoring, we present herein a set of unpublished observations collected in the last decades in peninsular Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia. Moreover, we report observation of \nH. verbana\n feeding on amphibians, a feeding habit to date poorly documented for the Mediterranean medicinal leech. Based on both published and novel data, \nH. verbana\n is characterised by a large but fragmented distribution in Italy. Therefore, dedicated monitoring programs and the collection of validated occasional observations are highly desirable to get a clearer picture of the real distribution of the species.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Annelida" }, { "word": "Hirudo feeding behaviour" }, { "word": "Monitoring ex art. 17 of the Habitats Directive" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jd3n5s1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Federico", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marrone", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Palermo", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Giuseppe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Alfonso", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rosario", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Barbagallo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Pietro", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Brandmayr", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Giacomo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bruni", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Simone", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Costa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Giovanni", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Farina", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Reinhard", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gerecke", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Angelina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Iannarelli", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Giuseppe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mazza", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Antonio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mazzei", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mattia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Menchetti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Valerio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moretti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Emiliano", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mori", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Riccardo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Novaga", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Marco", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pecoraro", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Enrico", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schifani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Fabio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stoch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Luca", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vecchioni", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2021-03-12T09:15:14Z", "date_accepted": "2021-03-12T09:15:14Z", "date_published": "2021-06-04T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/biogeographia/article/39798/galley/29973/download/" } ] }