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Branchellion spindolaorum Ruiz-Escobar & Oceguera-Figueroa, 2019

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Species
Branchellion Savigny, 1822
spindolaorum
Ruiz-Escobar & Oceguera-Figueroa
Ruiz-Escobar, Fernando & Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa. 2019 A new species of Branchellion Savigny, 1822 (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae), a marine leech parasitic on the giant electric ray Narcine entemedor Jordan & Starks (Batoidea: Narcinidae) off Oaxaca, Mexico. Systematic Parasitology 96(7): 575–584.
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Figs. 1–6
Holotype: CNHE 11071; Paratypes: CNHE 11072, UMAR-CLIT 002–004
off Zapotengo (15°41′29″N, 96°24′23″W), Oaxaca, Mexico; type-host: Narcine entemedor Jordan & Starks (Batoidea: Narcinidae)
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