Leeches from Chiapas, Mexico, with a new species of Erpobdella (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae)
Author
Tessler, Michael
Author
Siddall, Mark E.
Author
Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro
text
American Museum Novitates
2018
2018-03-12
2018
3895
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1206/3895.1
journal article
10.1206/3895.1
0003-0082
10110402
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Erpobdella adani
,
n. sp.
Figures 2–6
MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Fifteen
specimens collected in
Río Fogótico
, in
Arcotete
,
Chiapas
,
Mexico
, on
January 23, 2016
, by Michael Tessler, Samantha Contreras, Jairo Arroyave, and Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa. Specimens were found beneath submerged rocks in moderately flowing water. Non-blood-feeding (macrophagous)
.
DESCRIPTION: External morphology based on
15 specimens
. Body strongly dorsoventrally flattened, vermiform, slender. Dorsal surface dark gray, ventral surface lighter; some specimens with three longitudinal lines of black pigment, others lacking lines. Dorsal surface smooth, without conspicuous papillae or other sensory structures; ventral surface of some specimens covered with minute papillae (figs. 2, 3). Average body length
51 mm
(
35–64 mm
), average body width
4 mm
(
2–5 mm
). Complete somite five annulate. Clitellum conspicuous, thick both dorsally and ventrally, comprising 15 annuli, from X b5 to XIII a2. Male gonopore at XII b2/a2, female gonopore XII/XIII; three annuli between gonopores (fig. 4). Male gonopore large, conspicuous, and surrounded by an integumental disc; female gonopore small. Three pairs of eyespots in the classic “erpobdellid” arrangement with the anterior labial pair on III and two buccal pairs at IV. Mouth wide, occupying entire anterior sucker; anterior lip blunt (fig. 5). Anus large, on XXVI/XXVII. Posterior sucker weakly developed,