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Antarcticobdella crozetensis
· Piscicolidae
External morphology
Body divided into flattened urosome and slightly flattened trachelosome, body smooth with no vesicles, translucent, 3 pairs of tenticles on oral sucker, 14 ocelli on hind sucker, nuchal ocelli present
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Saltwater
- Region
- Antarctica
Original description
Sawyer, R. T. (1972). A New Species of "Tentacled" Marine Fish Leech Parasitic on Notothenia from the Subantarctic Marion and Crozet Islands. Hydrobiologia. 40(3): 345-354.