Lecithochirium polynemi 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-

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i3/2017/120967
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scientific name	Lecithochirium polynemi Chauhan, 1945
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1. Lecithochirium polynemi Chauhan, 1945 View in CoL

1945. Lecithochirium polynemi Chauhan, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. B 21 (3): 163

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

Material examined: Nil

Host: Harpodon nehereus (Hamilton, 1822); location: stomach; locality: Bakkhali, West Bengal.

Diagnostic characters: Body elongated; acetabulum larger than oral sucker; testes postacetabular, oblique; receptaculum seminalis present; vitellaria immediately postovarian with two compact masses, one is having three and another is having four digitate lobes; excretory vesicle ‘Y’ shaped; excretory pore terminal.

Distribution: India: Maharashtra, West Bengal. Elsewhere: New Caledonia.

Subfamily: APHANURINAE

Genus: Aphanurus Looss, 1907