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Erpobdella borisi
· Erpobdellidae
External morphology
Colour of living specimen light gray, adultupto 26mm, dark irregular spots on dorsum,venter much lighter and has few spots; lateralkeels in post-clitellar region; gonopore inXII b1/b2 (in some XII b2), gonopore in XIIb5/c11 (may be in XII c11) , atrial cornua ob-lique and curved towards the ventral side,preatrial loopspresent...
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- Asia
- Recorded from
- Iran
Biology
Cave-dweller
Original description
Cichocka, Joanna M., Aleksander Bielecki, Jaroslaw Kur, Dorota Pikuła, Adrianna Kilikowska & Beata Biernacka. 2015. A new leech species (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae: Erpobdella) from a cave in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. Zootaxa 4013(3): 413–427.