Abstract

The present paper deals with a new species of genus Phyllodistum Braun, 1899. Phyllodistomum betwaensis sp.n. is reported from fresh water fish Channa punctatus (Bl.) from Betwa river, Bundelkhand region, Jhansi. It differs from all the earlier reported species in having the body of fluke is spatulate and dorso-ventrally flattened; anterior portion of body is long and curved while posterior portion of body is broad; slightly curved, tubular oesophagus: ventral sucker oval and larger than oral sucker; testes, post-equatorial, inter-caecal, anterior testis is larger than posterior one and parallel to ovary; ovary, oval, just behind right vitelline lobe, parallel to anterior testis; vitelline lobes posterior-lateral to ventral sucker, oval. Right vitelline lobe is larger than left vitelline lobe; eggs are oval and non-operculated.

Highlights

  • The present study was aimed that determining the intestinal digenetic trematodes found in fishes of Betwa river of Bundelkhand region, Jhansi

  • The new species differs from P. triangulate[9], P. funduli[6], P. srivastavai[8], P. vachius[3], P. rhamidiae[11], P. tana[13], P. laxmibai10,in having anterior portion of body is long and curved while posterior portion of body broad; slightly curved, tubular oesophagus; ventral sucker oval, and larger than oral sucker

  • The new species differ from P. scrippsi[2], P. singhiai[5], P. lysteri[4], P. centopomi[1], P. pavlovaskii[12], P. parichhaii[7] and P. pahujii[7], P. laxmibai[10], in having post-equatorial, intercaecal, lobed testes

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

They are useful item of human food as well as the source of income. Fishes are important for providing nourishment to poultry and cattle, and useful for producing a high quality of manure especially for citrus plant, as a source of nitrogen and phosphate. The present study was aimed that determining the intestinal digenetic trematodes found in fishes of Betwa river of Bundelkhand region, Jhansi. This paper includes the description of a new species of Genus Phyllodistomum, 1899 found in the intestine of many specimens of Chanana punctatus (Bl.)

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Berenit Mendoza-Garfias and Gerardo

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