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On the First Record of Two Species of Fresh Water Leech (Hirudinea) from Arunachal Pradesh


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Leeches are hermaphrodite animals with totally reduced both parapodia and setae, with unpaired male and female genital openings in the clitellum, sucker on both anterior and posterior end of the body, each somite divided with three to five annuli.
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  • On the First Record of Two Species of Fresh Water Leech (Hirudinea) from Arunachal Pradesh

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Santanu Mitra
Zoological Survey of India, 27, J. L. Nehru Road, FPS Building, Kolkata-700016, India
J. G. Pattanayak
Zoological Survey of India, 27, J. L. Nehru Road, FPS Building, Kolkata-700016, India

Abstract


Leeches are hermaphrodite animals with totally reduced both parapodia and setae, with unpaired male and female genital openings in the clitellum, sucker on both anterior and posterior end of the body, each somite divided with three to five annuli.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v113i4.168733