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Locality : Bombay.
Genus : Eudrilus E. Perr.
Setae closely paired.
39. Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinb.)
Locality : Poona.
Family : Lumbricidae.
Normal Setae ‘S' shaped, usually eight per segment, seldom more. The number of
Lumbricidae in India is very small.
Genus : Pentoscolex Schmarda.
40. Pentoscolex corethrurus (Fr. Mull).
Length 60-120 mm dia. 4 mm Segments 90-212.
Locality : Bombay, Poona.
Order : Hirudinea (Leeches)
Vermiform and bisexual. Provided with a sucker at both extremeties. The Hirudinea are
divided into two sub-orders:
Rhynchobdellae and Arhynchobdellae.
Sub-order : Rhynchobdellae.
Marine and freshwater leeches with colourless blood, with a protrusible proboscis and
without jaws. The mouth is a small median aperture situated within the anterior sucker
or rarely upon its anterior rim.
Family : Ichthyobdellidae.
Genus : Placobdella K. Blanchard.
Flattened body. Parasitic on turtles, frogs and fish.
1. Placobdella ernydae (Harding)
Locality : Satara District.
Genus : Hemiclepsis Vejdovsky.
Medium, typically with 2 pairs of eyes. Mouth-opening within the anterior sucker.
2. Hemiclepsis marginata (O. F. Muller)
This is chiefly a fish-parasite but also attacks certain molluscs- L. amellidens sp.
Locality : Igatpuri, Western Ghats, Bombay.
Genus : Paraclepsis Harding.
Medium size, 3 pairs of eyes, Mouth-opening subterminal.
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