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Batracobdelloides yaukthwa
· Glossiphoniidae
External morphology
Small to medium-sized leeches, two pairs of eyespots on III (eyespots of the first pair are strongly reduced and usually joined with thesecond pair; eyespots of the second pair are larger, round or angulate, merging); body with 68-70 annuli,mid-body somites triannulate; dorsum with three or five longitudinal rows of prominent tubercles; mouthpore is shifted to the anterior part of the anterior sucker; salivary glands diffuse, extensively developed;proboscis slender; esophagus long, slender, slightly muscular; esophageal organ present; seven weaklybranched pairs of crop caeca; gonopores separated by two annuli: male gonopore on furrow XI a3 / XIIa1 and female gonopore on furrow XII a2 / XII a3; six pairs of testisacs
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- Asia
- Recorded from
- Myanmar
Original description
Bolotov, I. N.; Klass, A. L.; Kondakov, A. V.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Filippov, B. Y.; Bogan, A. E.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Lunn, Z.; Chan, N.; Aksenova, O. V.; Dvoryankin, G. A.; Chapurina, Y. E.; Kim, S. K.; Kolosova, Y. S.; Konopleva, E. S.; Lee, J. H.; Makhrov, A. A.; Palatov, D. M.; Sayenko, E. M.; Spitsyn, V. M.; Sokolova, S. E.; Tomilova, A. A.; Win, T.; Zubrii, N. A.; Vinarski, M. V. (2019). Freshwater mussels house a diverse mussel-associated leech assemblage. Scientific Reports. 9(1): 1-22, supplements.