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 | | This form occurs at the southern periphery of the range of its very closely allied species Macrobdella decora, near the Missouri-Kansas border; Parallel modifications of the copulatory pores occur at the extreme southern Appalachian end of the range of M decora (Sawyer and Pass 1972). |
 | | Dorsum with a yelllow or brown stripe; gonopores separated by 3-4 annuli but difficult to see; widely distributed in southern states; A related form, the genotype Philobdella floridana (Verrill 1874), is inadequately distinguished from P gracilis, with which it is probably conspecific; type locality; Lake Okeechobee, Florida |
 | | With two or four longitudinal rows of fl pigment concentrations; male gonopore remarkably large in adults; a very common species throughout United States, Canada, and into Mexico; E montezuma from Arizona has posterior crop caeca (Davies, Singhal, and Blinn, 1985). |
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