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Austrobdella californica
· Piscicolidae
External morphology
~35 mm; pigmentation in life is uniformly green, often with narrow, paired, longitudinal, unpigmented stripes on the dorsal surface, and critically it lacks eyespots (and reaches 30.5 mm), the absence of eyespots is its handiest separator from the eyed species
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Saltwater
- Region
- North America
- Recorded from
- Pacific Ocean
Biology
Host some Paralichthyidae, Scorpaenidae, and Pharidae
Taxonomic notes
Austrobdella californiana
Original description
Burreson, Eugene M. “A New Marine Leech Austrobdella Californiana n. Sp. (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) from Southern California Flatfishes.” Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, vol. 96, no. 2, 1977, pp. 263–67. JSTOR,