Opegaster beliyai Pande, 1937

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
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13184804
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F4587C4-AF34-F022-FF48-B820EF726FD5
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scientific name	Opegaster beliyai Pande, 1937
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20. Opegaster beliyai Pande, 1937 View in CoL

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1937. Opegaster beliyai Pande, Proc. Natn. Acad. Sci. 7 (2): 111-115

Material examined: 1 example; Host: Nandus nandus (Hamilton, 1822) ; location: intestine; locality: Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Host: Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton, 1822) , Chanda nama Hamilton, 1822 , Chanda ranga Hamilton, 1822 ; location: intestine; locality: Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal.

Diagnostic characters: Body oval with pointed anterior end; oral sucker small; acetabulum large; prepharynx short; oesophagus long; testes tandem, transversely elongated; external seminal vesicle long, extends upto posterior margin of acetabulum; ovary pretesticular, transversely elongated and kidney shaped; vitellaria extends from the level of middle of oesophagus to posterior end of the body; excretory vesicle tubular.

Distribution: India: Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.

Subfamily: PLAGIOPORINAE

Genus: Neopodocotyle Dayal, 1950