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Helobdella gulloae

Torres-Carrera & Duarte-de Lima, 2025 · Glossiphoniidae

Helobdella gulloae, a leech of the family Glossiphoniidae

External morphology

Dorsum with 37 longitudinal brown stripes, a pair of midline brown stripes originates near eyespots then fuses posteriorly afterwards being interrupted by square white spots, 3 longitudinal rows of black tipped pappilae and additional incomplete rows occasionally, eyespots semi-oval.

Internal morphology

5 pairs of crop caeca, 4 pairs of testisacs

Habitat & range

Habitat
Freshwater
Region
North America
Recorded from
Mexico

Original description

Torres-Carrera, Gerardo; Duarte-de Lima, Lucas; Oceguera-figueroa, Alejandro. (2025). Description of two new species of freshwater leeches of the genus Helobdella (Hirudinea, Glossiphoniidae) from Mexico, with a redescription of Helobdella socimulcensis (Caballero, 1931). ZooKeys. 1261: 141-164.

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1261.162279 · zookeys.pensoft.net