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Lepocreadioides indicum Srivastava 1941

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11. Lepocreadioides indicum Srivastava, 1941

Figure 3 (d)

1941. Lepocreadioides indicum Srivastava Indian J. Vet. Sci. 11 (1): 52

1999. L. indicum: Hafeezullah & Dutta, Fauna of West Bengal (Part 11): 133-222

Material examined: Nil 22 examples; Host: Cynoglossus lida (Bleeker, 1851); location: intestine; locality: Bakkhali, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal

Diagnostic characters: Body bluntly pointed at anterior end and broadly rounded in posterior end; acetabulum larger than oral sucker; cirrus sac club shaped; testes ovate, diagonal, genital pore very near to oral sucker; ovary pretesticular, postacetabular, three lobed; vitelline follicles lateral, extends upon caecal bifurcation.

Distribution: India: Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coasts, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Pakistan

Subfamily: DIPLOPROCTODAEINAE

Genus: Bianium Stunkard, 1930

Notes

Published as part of Ghosh, Anindita, Chakrabarti, Shuvajit & Purushothaman, Jasmine, 2017, Platyhelminthes parasites of fish of economic importance from Diamond Harbour, West Bengal, pp. 242 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3) on page 242, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i3/2017/120967, http://zenodo.org/record/13184241

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References

  • Srivastava, H. D. 1941. New Allocreadiids (Trematoda) from Indian marine food fishes. Ind. J. Vet. Sci., 11 (1): 52 - 54.
  • Stunkard, H. W. 1930. Further observation on the occurrence of anal openings in digenetic trematodes. Z. Parasit., 3: 713 - 725.