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Helobdella papilloprocta
· Glossiphoniidae
External morphology
Dorsum with 40 longitudinal brown stripes, midline paired stripes not joining, 3 longitudinal rows of black-tipped papillae and additional incomplete marginal rows, papillae larger than width of annuli, a pair of dorsal papillae located beside the anus, eyespots oval.
Internal morphology
5 pairs of crop caeca, 5 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.