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Epsteinia alba
· Piscicolidae
External morphology
Body sharply divided into trachelosome and urosome, wide and flattened, eyes absent, tegument opaque,
Internal morphology
posterior crop caeca absent
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Saltwater
- Region
- Antarctica
Original description
Epshtein V.M. (1970). Fish Leeches (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) in the Antarctic seas from the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. P. 146-149. In: Volyanitsky VA (ed) First All-Union Symposium Diseases and Parasites of Marine Animals. Sevastopol, Kiev.