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EUGENE M. BURRESON, A new species of marine leech (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) from the north-eastern Pacific Ocean, parasitic on the English sole, Parophrys vetulus Girard, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 80, Issue 2-3, February 1984, Pages 297–301, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1984.tb01979.x
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Abstract
The marine piscicolid leech Calliobdella knightjonesi sp. nov. from the Oregon coast is described and illustrated. Mature individuals do not exceed 10 mm in length, have faint reddish-brown segmental pigment bands, small pulsatile vesicles, six pairs of testisacs and a well-developed seminal receptacle connected to the posterior portion of the bursa by paired tissue strands. The leech lacks eyes and ocelli.
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