Lepocreadioides indicum Srivastava, 1941

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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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13184792
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scientific name	Lepocreadioides indicum Srivastava, 1941
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11. Lepocreadioides indicum Srivastava, 1941 View in CoL

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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