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Biol Bull 142: 470-479. (June 1972)
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A NEW SPECIES OF MARINE LEECH (ANNELIDA: HIRUDINEA) FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, PARASITIC ON THE ATLANTIC MENHADEN, BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS

ROY T. SAWYER 1 and NORMAN A. CHAMBERLAIN 1

1 Department of Biology and Grice Marine Biological Laboratory, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 29401

1. A new species of marine leech is reported from the estuaries of South Carolina on the clupeid fishes, the Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe) and the blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis(Mitchill).

2. The leech, which is provisionally assigned to the genus Calliobdella, has the following characteristics: 14-annulate, two pairs of cephalic ocelli, no ocelli on caudal sucker, 11 pairs of pulsatile vesicles and a well-developed medial, muscular organ which functions as a seminal receptacle.






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