Indian Hirudinea by W.A. Harding

Author:W.A. Harding [Harding, W.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9780429846083
Google: 6x6yDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-25T04:58:55+00:00

Genus PTEROBDELLA, Kaburaki, 1921.

Leeches inhabiting brackish water, ectoparasitic on fish. Body smooth and divided into three distinct regions, of which the anterior two are each provided with paired, lateral, fin-like processes. Without eyes or pulsating vesicles. Crop (or stomach) with five pairs of lateral diverticula and without a posterior cæcum. Five pairs of testes. Complete somite formed of fourteen rings (?).

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Pterobdella amara, Kaburaki, 1921. (Figs. 19 & 20.)

Pterobdella amara, n. g., n. sp. Kaburaki, 1921, p. 668.

The brief notice here given of this remarkable species, which I have not had the opportunity of examining, is summarized from

Fig. 19.—Pterobdella amara, Kaburaki, 1921. Dorsal aspect, greatly enlarged. (After Kaburaki.)

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