A New Species of Orobdella (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Gastrostomobdellidae) from Tsushima Island, Japan

• Nakano Takafumi

  Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Abstract

A quadrannulate species of the genus Orobdella Oka, 1895 from Tsushima Island, Japan, Orobdella tsushimensis sp. nov., is described. It differs from other quadrannulate species of Orobdella in possessing the following combination of characters: color yellowish, III and IV uniannulate, male gonopore at XI b6, gastropore in XIII a1/a2, female gonopore in XIII a1/a2, 1/2+5 between gonopores, XXVI triannulate, gastroporal duct small and bottleshaped, epididymides in XVI to XIX, and atrial cornua coniform.

Journal

• Species Diversity

  Species Diversity 16 (1-2), 39-47, 2011

  The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology

Keywords

• Hirudinida
• Gastrostomobdellidae
• Orobdella
• new species
• gastroporous
• Tsushima Island
• Japan

Details

• CRID: 1390001204459750912
• NII Article ID: 110008670879
• NII Book ID: AA11114903
• DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.16.39
• ISSN: 21897301
• ISSN: 13421670
• NDL BIB ID: 11061675
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I11061675
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/specdiv/16/1-2/16_KJ00007278288/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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