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WHILST dissecting the leech in the class of practical zoology, one of my students directed my attention to an apparent abnormality in the specimen which it fell to his lot to dissect. On careful examination it was found that the vesicula seminalis of the right side had moved forwards into the fifth somite, and there opened into the base of a second and fully-developed penis, which opened to the exterior on the second annulus of the fifth somite. From the vas deferens, however, there passed off to the normal penis a duct which had on it a swelling corresponding in position to the vesicula seminalis, which had been moved forwards. The various parts on the left side, as well as the female organs, were quite normal.
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GIBSON, R. An Abnormal Hirudo medicinalis. Nature 35, 392 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035392b0
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