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Hemiclepsis yangtzenensis
· Glossiphoniidae
External morphology
translucent body with dense green reticulate markings, posterior sucker very large, 2 pairs of eyes both well developed
Internal morphology
9-11 pairs of crop caeca
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Freshwater
- Region
- Asia
- Recorded from
- Hubei China, Taiwan
Biology
Parasitic on Asian Swamp Eel
Original description
Xu, Zhiwei, Chaodong Yang, Mikhail Y. Gofarov, Tatyana Eliseeva, Alexander V. Kondakov, Hanwen Yuan, Ivan Bolotov & Daiqin Yang. 2021. A new freshwater leech species from Asian Swamp Eel stocks in China. Parasitology Research 120(8): 2769–2778.