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Cylicobdella costaricae
· Cylicobdellidae
External morphology
Body firm long and narrow (unflattened), color gray or light brown uniformly, venter slightly lighter in color, anterior and posterior suckers poorly developed and in no case wider than body, no papillae, 1.5 annuli between gonopores, 2 annuli between anus and posterior sucker, 5 annuli per somite, 3+ pairs of eyes in an arch
Internal morphology
no gastric caeca, testisacs 10 pairs, ovaries simple and tubular,
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Terrestrial
- Region
- North America
- Recorded from
- Costa Rica
Original description
Plotnikow, V. 1905. Glossosiphoniidae, Hirudinidae et Herpobdellidae Zoologiceskago Museia Imperatorkoia Akademii. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l’Académie Imperiale des Sciences. St. Petersburg. Akademiya Nauk, Rusia 10:133-158.
Redescription
Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro & Pacheco-Chaves, Bernald. (2012). Registros de sanguijuelas de Costa Rica y clave para la identificación de las especies con redescripción de Cylicobdella costaricae. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad. 83. 946-957.
Sources used for this page
Picture: https://doi.org/10.7550/rmb.31623