Vermont Records of Crayfish Worms (Branchiobdellidans) and Associated Crayfish Hosts

Kent McFarland1

1 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, PO Box 420, 05055, Norwich, United States

Corresponding author(s): Kent McFarland (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

McFarland K (2021): Vermont Records of Crayfish Worms (Branchiobdellidans) and Associated Crayfish Hosts. v1.2. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vermont-crayfish-worms&v=1.2

Abstract

Vermont distribution of crayfish worms (Branchiobdellidians) and the host crayfish in Vermont from published literature.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Vermont Atlas of Life
Personnel: Kent McFarland
Study area descriptions/descriptor: State of Vermont, USA
Design description: http://val.vtecostudies.org/

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vermont-crayfish-worms

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Family: Branchiobdellidae, Cambaridae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: State of Vermont, USA
Coordinates: 42°40'55.2''N and 45°4'26.4''N Latitude; 73°31'15.6''W and 71°20'42''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1978 - 2012

Methods

Method step description: see published papers
Study extent description: Several watersheds in Vermont, USA
Sampling description: Sampled crayfish and examined them for worms

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Vermont Records of Crayfish Worms (Branchiobdellidans) and Associated Crayfish Hosts
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=vermont-crayfish-worms
Publication date of data: 2021-12-22
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-02-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Gelder, S.R., H.C. Carter, and D.N. Lausier. 2001. Distribution of crayfish worms or branchiobdellidans (Annelida: Clitellata) in New England. Northeastern Naturalist 8(1):79–92.
Lukas, L. C., Weaver, P. G., & Williams, B. W. (2019). Distributions of Two Groups of Obligate Crayfish Ectosymbionts—Branchiobdellidans and Entocytherid Ostracods—in New England. Northeastern Naturalist, 26(1), 155-167.