Lecithocladium glandulum Chauhan, 1945

Ghosh, Anindita, Chakrabarti, Shuvajit & Purushothaman, Jasmine, 2017, Platyhelminthes parasites of fish of economic importance from Diamond Harbour, West Bengal, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3), pp. 242-242 : 242-

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scientific name	Lecithocladium glandulum Chauhan, 1945
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6. Lecithocladium glandulum Chauhan, 1945 View in CoL

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1945. Lecithocladium glandulum Chauhan, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci.

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Material examined: 5 examples; Host: Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus, 1766) ; location: intestine; locality: Diamond Harbour, West Bengal; collector: S. Chakrabarti & party .

Diagnostic characters: Body elongated; ecsoma present; ecsoma smaller than somatic body; oral sucker smaller than acetabulum; pharynx large, cylindrical; oesophagus short; testes diagonal, equatorial; ovary posttesticular, right in front of the ecsoma; vitellaria with seven winding tubules; excretory vesicle ‘Y’shaped.

Distribution: India: Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, West Bengal

Subfamily: DINURINAE

Genus: Uterovesiculurus Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954