Utevsky, Andrei Y. (2004). A new species of marine leeches (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) from the coastal waters of South Africa. Vestnik Zoologii. 38(5): 79-83.

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Utevsky, Andrei Y.

2004

38(5): 79-83

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The marine piscicolid leech Austrobdella oosthuizeni A. Utevsky, sp. n. from the coastal waters of South Africa is described and illustrated. The body is up to 9.7 mm long, trachelosome subcylindrical, urosome flattened without pulsatile vesicles; body unpigmented, semitransparent; eyes and ocelli absent (in fixed specimens). The specimens were collected on Jassus lalandii (Crustacea, Decapoda).

South Africa

Systematics, Taxonomy

Annelida

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