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English: Mucosally invasive hirudinoid leeches. Known from a wide variety of anatomical sites including eyes (A) as in this case involving Dinobdella ferox (B), mucosal leech species, as in a case involving Myxobdella annandalei (C), more frequently feed from the nasopharyngeal surfaces of mammals (D).
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Source Phillips, A. J, Arauco-Brown, R., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Gomez, G. P., Beltrán, M., et al. (2010). Tyrannobdella rex n. gen. n. sp. and the evolutionary origins of mucosal leech infestations. PLoS ONE 5 (4): e10057. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010057
Author Anna J. Phillips, Renzo Arauco-Brown, Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa, Gloria P. Gomez, María Beltrán, Yi-Te Lai, Mark E. Siddall
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current16:12, 16 April 2010Thumbnail for version as of 16:12, 16 April 20101,477 × 1,833 (3.96 MB)Gaussianer{{Information |Description={{en|1=(A) Stereomicrograph of the single dorsal jaw of T. rex with large teeth. Scale bar is 100 µm. (B) Tyrannobdella rex anterior sucker exhibiting velar mouth and longitudinal slit through which the dorsal jaw protrudes whe
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