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Terry catches a ray-finned fish from the ocean and notices that, attached to its flank, there is an equally long, snakelike organism. The attached organism has no external segmentation, no scales, a round mouth surrounded by a sucker and two small eyes. Terry thinks it might be a marine leech, a hagfish, or a lamprey.
-Which feature excludes it from possibly being a leech?
A) its elongate shape
B) its lack of scales
C) its lack of external segmentation
D) its round mouth
E) its anterior sucker
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