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1 April 2008 A New Glossiphoniid Leech from Catemaco Lake, Veracruz, México
Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa
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Abstract

Haementeria acuecueyetzin n. sp. from Catemaco Lake, Veracruz, Mexico, is described based on the examination of 6 specimens. This new hematophagous leech species resembles other members of the genus in the number and position of the eyespots, number of compact salivary glands, and in the presence of 2 pairs of spheroidal mycetomes, but it is distinguished from the other species by having 6 rows of longitudinal smooth white papillae in the dorsal surface and numerous tubercles in dorsal and ventral surfaces. This new species represents the third species of Haementeria in the Northern Hemisphere of the Americas.

Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa "A New Glossiphoniid Leech from Catemaco Lake, Veracruz, México," Journal of Parasitology 94(2), 375-380, (1 April 2008). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-1240.1
Received: 21 February 2007; Accepted: 1 August 2007; Published: 1 April 2008
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