Genus Malacobdella

Blainville, 1827

Nemerteans with broad, dorsoventrally compressed bodies bearing a single posterior ventral sucker; proboscis unarmed; rhynchocoel opening into barrel-shaped foregut which is lined by rows of motile, ciliated papillae; intestine sinuous, without lateral diverticula; eyes and cerebral sensory organs absent; sexes separate, gonads generally numerous, closely packed on either side of the intestine; with entocommensal habits, typically living in the mantle chamber of bivalve molluscs.

Source: Gibson, 1982.

The following species of this genus occurs in the region:

Malacobdella grossa

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