Description: Leeches rest on the seabed after feeding on fishes (Notostomum sucks the blood of rays and eelpouts).
Up to 200 mm long Item Type: Image Title: Notostomum laeve Species: Notostomum laeve Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of ShetlandNorth Sea -- West of Shetland Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1156 Latitude: 61 deg 16' 00" N Longitude: 2 deg 59' 00" E Countries: UK -- West of Shetland Rig: Leiv Eiriksson Project Partners: Shell ROV: Magnum 105 and Magnum 146 Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones Deposited On: 09 May 2014
Figure 1.Aporodrilus aotea sp. n. ventral view with dorsal view of epilobous prostomium, spermathecae, prostate and gizzard in 5 in situ; and lumbricine setal ratios on 12–14; plus lateral view of tail end. [Boxed spermatheca is for comparison of Aporodrilus esculentus (Benham, 1904) from Benham’s fig. 67 and from Lee (1959: fig. 309)].
Figure 11.Morphology of the lectotype (ZMH V9301) of Glyphidrilus buttikoferi Michaelsen, 1922, showing the A external ventral and B internal dorsal views.
Figure 1.A Eisenia fetida specimen S1 from Jeju Isl., Korea; anterio-ventral and lateral views, dorsal prostomium; spermathecae and calciferous glands in situ, nephridium from 20lhs B Eisenia fetida S3 ditto with nephridium in 13lhs C Athecal Allolobophora hataii Kobayashi, 1940: fig. 5 (incertae sedis) for comparison.
Robert J. Blakemore, Seunghan Lee, Wonchoel Lee, Hong-Yul Seo
Zookeys
Figure 1.Amynthas daeari sp. n. showing ventral view with spermathecae, their composite genital marking glands and 18lhs prostate in situ plus incised intestinal caecum in 27; dorsal view of prostomium; [boxed are lateral views of spermathecal pores and male field in 18rhs to same scale].
William A. Hopkins, William E. Moser, David W. Garst, Dennis J. Richardson, Charlotte I. Hammond, Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Zookeys
Figure 2.Dorsal surface of Placobdella appalachiensis sp. n., Holotype USNM 1232924 collected from an adult eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) from stream reach A3 in southwest Virginia, USA. Scale bar equals 1 mm.
