A new species of Stratiodrilus (Polychaeta, Histriobdellidae) from freshwater crayfishes of southern Brazil

A new species of polychaete, Stratiodrilus vilae, epizoic on Parastacus brasiliensis (von Martens, 1869) and P. defossus Faxon, 1898, is described from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. The new species has one pair of long, anal, conical ventral lobes, one on each side of the anus, claspers in the males, and one pair of tubercles in each of the posterior locomotor appendages; and the jaw apparatus not reaching the limit between the head and the first segment.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amato,J. F. R.
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Museu de Ciências Naturais 2001
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0073-47212001000100004
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