Pallisentis ophiocephali ( Thapar, 1930 ) Baylis, 1933

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
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F4587C4-AF3F-F029-FC90-B820E94C68AB
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pallisentis ophiocephali ( Thapar, 1930 ) Baylis, 1933
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4. Pallisentis ophiocephali ( Thapar, 1930) Baylis, 1933 View in CoL

1930. Farzandia ophiocephali Thapar, Ann. Mag . Nat . Hist. 10: 443-449

1933. Pallisentis ophiocephali Baylis, Ann. Mag . Nat . Hist. 10: 443-449

Material examined: 4 examples; Host: Channa sp. ; location: intestine; locality: Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal; collector: S. Chakrabarty & party

Diagnostic characters: Collar of spines present in the trunk near anterior extremity; proboscis short, with 4 circles of each; anterior hooks broad, recurved; in male testes oval, contiguous; cement gland long with 20-30 nuclei, syncytial.

Distribution: India: Cosmopolitan.

Remarks: This species has been newly recorded from Diamond Harbour.