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A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF LEECH PARASITIC ON DREPANOPSETTA PLATESSOIDES (MALM) THE LONG ROUGH DAB.
Author(s) -
SILVA P. H. D. H. DE,
KABATA Z.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
proceedings of the zoological society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0370-2774
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1961.tb05878.x
Subject(s) - leech , anatomy , coelom , biology , subfamily , dorsum , genus , crop , zoology , ecology , computer science , biochemistry , world wide web , gene
This new piscicolid leech (subfamily Ichthyobdellinae) was found attached to the branchiae and inner surface of the branchial chamber of Drepanopsetta platessoides , trawled off Iceland. It has a fairly extensive coelomic system with no clear separation into dorsal, ventral and segmental lacunae. Its posterior crop caeca are separate and there are only eighteen separate ganglia between the anterior and posterior ganglionic masses.