A New Deep-Sea Fish Leech (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from the North East Pacific Ocean

Eugene M. Burreson

doi:10.1654/1525-2647-83.1.88

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1 January 2016 A New Deep-Sea Fish Leech (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from the North East Pacific Ocean

Eugene M. Burreson

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Comparative Parasitology, 83(1):88-91 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-83.1.88

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Galatheabdella epshteini is described from depths of 900 to 2,400 m off the northwest coast of the United States. Leeches are elongate, up to 50 mm total length. Body is smooth, lacking papillae, tubercles, or pigmentation. Oral sucker is well developed; caudal sucker is small and subterminal. Leeches have pulsatile vesicles, 6 pairs of testisacs, accessory gland cells on atrial cornu, conducting tissue, mycetomes, and fused postceca with fenestrae. No host is recorded.

The Helminthological Society of Washington

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Eugene M. Burreson "A New Deep-Sea Fish Leech (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from the North East Pacific Ocean," Comparative Parasitology 83(1), 88-91, (1 January 2016). https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-83.1.88

Published: 1 January 2016

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