2023
DOI: 10.17216/limnofish.1270081
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First report of leech parasitism in freshwater turtles for Turkish wetlands

Mustafa CEYLAN,
Osman ÇETİNKAYA

Abstract: Research on the diversities of parasites and hosts, as well as their relationship, can provide significant contributions to understanding, utilizing, conserving, and properly managing aquatic ecosystems. The freshwater mud turtle Emys orbicularis and Balkan turtle Mauremys rivulata, as well as the leech Placobdella costata, are distributed; however the relations between these organisms are not well-known in Turkish wetlands. In this study, the parasitism of Glossiphonid leech P. costata on freshwater turtles, … Show more

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