A new marine leech Cryobdella ljadovi sp. n. from Antarctic seas (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae)

V.M. Epshtein & A.U. Utevsky

Abstract. Cryobdella ljadovi sp. n., parasitic on gills of Muraenolepis marmoratus and M. microps from coastal waters of the Kerguelen and South Orkney Islands, is described. Individuals reach a maximum length of 17.5 mm and have no eyes, ocelli, papillae, posterior crop caeca. The anterior sucker is small, indistinctly separated from the trachelosome. The posterior sucker is of an unusual form and adapted to the gill raker attachment.

Zoosystematica Rossica, 1994, 3(1): 23–25  ▪  Published in print 24 August 1994


  

References

Epshtein, V.M. 1970. Fish leeches (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) of the Antarctic seas, from collections of Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences. In: Vodyanitsky, V.A. (ed.). Voprosy morskoy parazitologii. Materialy pervogo vsesojuznogo simpoziuma po parazitam i boleznyam morskikh zhivotnykh [Problems of marine parazitology. Materials of the First All-Union Symposium on parasites and diseases of marine animals]: 146-150. (In Russian).

Harding, V.A. 1922. Hirudinea. Zoology, 2: 257-261.

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