FIGURE 1. A in Description and taxonomic analysis of a tuberculated turtle leech from the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA, provisionally identified as Placobdella multilineata Moore, 1953 (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae)

FIGURE 1. A, Map of the mid-Atlantic coastal plain showing location of the Albemarle region of the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA. This wetlands (yellow shading) is the focus of an ongoing study of the Hirudinea. B, Close-up of locality stations (red stars) where over 675 Albemarle turtle leeches were collected in this study from 2008–2020. See Appendix for compilation of locality records. Scale bars: A, 100 km; B, 50 km. ABBREVIATIONS TO FIGURES. a, atrium; ae, accessory eye; ah, atrial horn; an, anus; b, 'brain'; cc, crop caecum; cl, 'colossal cells'; cu, detached cuticle; cup, detached cuticle of proboscis sheath; e, eye; ed, ejaculatory duct; f, female gonopore; g, ganglion; ic, intestinal caecum; lp, lateral head patch of segment IV; m, male gonopore; ma, metameric marginal pattern; mp, mouth pore; my, mycetome; oc, common ovisac; oe, oesophagus; op, posterior arm of ovisac; ov, vertical arm of ovisac; p, proboscis; pa, point of attachment; pb, base of proboscis; pd, paramedial stripe; pm, protractor muscle; pp, placobdellid head pattern; ps, proboscis sheath; pt, pre-anal tubercle; r, rectum; rm, retractor muscle; s, mid-dorsal stripe; sa, anterior salivary 'gland'; sb, common bundle of ductules from both salivary 'glands'; sd, bundle of ductules from salivary 'gland'; sp, posterior salivary 'gland'; pst, presumptive salivary tissue; sv, seminal vesicle; t2, second testisac; ta, paramarginal tubercle; ti, intermediate tubercle; tm, medial tubercle; tp, paramedial tubercle; ua, pre-ocular unpigmented area; vr, ventral rim of oral sucker; vs, ventral longitudinal stripe; wp, white patch.