WoRMS taxon details
original description
Ruiz-Escobar, Fernando; Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro. (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. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> efirst: 1-10., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11230-019-09872-w [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype IBUNAM CNHE 11071, Coleccion Nacional de Helmintos (CNHE), geounit Mexico Southwest [details]
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Etymology Branchellion spindolaorum is named after the Spindola fishermen family from Puerto Angel, Oaxaca Mexico (Fidencio Spindola Avila, his sons Jesus and Fidencio Spindola-Ramırez, and his grandson Yoshiha Spindola-Sanchez) [details]
Type locality Parasitic on Narcine entemedor, off Zapotengo 15.6914, -96.4064 (15 41' 29" N, 96 24' 23" W), Oaxaca, Mexico. [details]
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