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Cylicobdella coccinea
ยท Cylicobdellidae
External morphology
Smaller than C. lumbricoides, dark red to blood red, 98-100 body segments, gonopores between segments 26/27 and 28/29, 2.5 annuli between gonopores, 5 annuli per somite, biannulate somite IV
Internal morphology
ovaries ventral to intestine, intestine without a blood sac
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Terrestrial
- Region
- South America, North America
- Recorded from
- Bolivia, Trinidad
Original description
Kennel, Ueber einige Landblutegel des tropischen America. (1886). Zoologische Jahrbuecher, ii, 37-64