TY - JOUR AB - A New Species of Marine Fish Leeches Crangonobdella maculosa sp. n. (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) from the Tatar Strait and Coastal Waters of the Kuril Islands. Utevsky S. Yu. — A new species of marine fish leeches from the North Pacific is described. This leech deposits its cocoons on the crustaceans Paralithodes camtschatica, Lithodes aequispina, and Chionoecetes opilio, but feeds on the fish blood. Crangonobdella maculosa S. Utevsky, sp. n. is related to Crangonobdella fabricii (Malm, 1863), but differs in the following characters: in the new species, segmental bands consist of separate spots; the conductive tissue is weakly developed; the vagina is provided with a glandular organ. Key words: Crangonobdella maculosa, Hirudinea, Piscicolidae, leeches, crustaceans, trypanosomes. A1 - Utevsky, S. Y. JO - waters of the Kuril Islands. Vestnik Zoologii IS - 2 SP - 15 EP - 22 C1 - 39(2): 15-22 TI - A new species of marine fish leeches Crangonobdella maculosa sp. n. (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) from the Tatar Strait and coastal UR - https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=177585 VL - 39 PY - 2005 Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -