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Ganymedes cratere N.G. et S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

W. Harold Leigh-Sharpe
W. Harold Leigh-Sharpe
Affiliation:
Demonstrator in Biology at Guy's Hospital Medical School, London.
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My interest having been aroused in Calliobdella lophii, I requested all my friends engaged upon the sea to keep a look-out for any leeches that might come to hand and especially for Calliobdella. Accordingly on 6. VIII. 1914 I received a specimen of a leech, taken near St Margaret's Hope towards the north-east of S. Ronaldsay in the Isles of Orkney, which as far as I can discover has never been described before, and which presents peculiar and interesting features not wholly dissimilar from those of Calliobdella. I propose to name the leech Ganymedes (or, if this name should be pre-occupied, Ganymedebdella) cratere.

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , June 1915 , pp. 1 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1915

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1 Leigh-Sharpe, (1914), Calliobdella lophii, Parasitology, vii. 204CrossRefGoogle Scholar also (1913), Calliobdella lophii, Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc. X. 81.Google Scholar

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1 I now consider the presence or absence of eyes of specific and not of generic value as in my previous paper (loc. cit.). Thus we have in the genus Platybdetta, P. quadrioculata with four eyes and P. anarrhichae without eyes; and others.Google Scholar