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Illebdella papuensis
ยท Haemadipsidae
External morphology
It is strongly depressed, with acute flange-like margins. The pattern consists of a median metamerically checkered band, an inner paired longitudinal row of separated short segmental ovals, and an outer paired row of longer segmental ovals linked at the intersomitallevels to be catenulate, chain-like.
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Terrestrial
- Region
- Pacific Islands
- Recorded from
- Papua
Original description
Richardson, Laurence R. 1974. A new leech from Papua, representative of a third family of aquatic jawed sanguivores in the Australian Region (Hirudinoidea: Illebdellidae fam. nov.). Records of the Australian Museum 29(6): 187-196.