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Haementeria acuecueyetzin
· Glossiphoniidae
External morphology
Brownish, dorsum rough with 6 longitudinal rows of smooth white papillae along the body, well defined dark longitudinal middorsal line starts at eyespots and continues to end of body and is partially interrupted at each a2, some specimens with 2 additional indistinct longitudinal rows, 1 pair of eyes very close together, 2 annuli between gonopores, oral sucker somewhat triangular, with ventral tubercles
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- North America
- Recorded from
- Veracruz Mexico
Original description
Oceguera-Figueroa, A new glossiphoniid leech from Catemaco Lake, Veracruz, Mexico. (2008). Journal of Parasitology, 94(2), 375-380