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Nototheniobdella sawyeri
· Piscicolidae
External morphology
Body cylindrical, trachelosome narrower than urosome, suckers large and rounded, 12-13 pairs of pulsatile vesicles, midbody 6-annulate.
Internal morphology
posterior crop caeca fused, accessory glands present, 6 pairs of testisacs, ovisacs long and greatly coiled
Habitat & range
- Habitat
- Saltwater
- Region
- Antarctica
Biology
On bullheads and notothenioids
Original description
Utevsky, A. Y. (1993). A new marine leech Nototheniobdella sawyeri gen. n., sp. n. (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) from Antarctic seas. Zoosystematica Rossica. 2(2), 237-240.