Friday, July 18, 2008
Macrobdella the Mimic
McCallum and colleagues, in an article just published in the Southeastern Naturalist, convincingly demonstrate that the rather striking colors of Macrobdella species, the North American medicinal leeches, the dorsal polka-dots, ventral orange with black specks, represent a case of Batesian or Müllerian mimicry.
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