Raorhynchus polynemi Tripathi, 1959

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.13184834

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F4587C4-AF3F-F029-FF6D-B8DBEC0E6F27

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Felipe

scientific name

Raorhynchus polynemi Tripathi, 1959
status

 

2. Raorhynchus polynemi Tripathi, 1959 View in CoL

1959. Raorhynchus polynemi Tripathi, Rec. Ind. Mus. 54 (1&2): 61-99

Material examined: 5 examples; Host: Alectis indicus (Ruppell, 1830) ; location: intestine; locality: Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal; collector: S. Chakrabarty & party .

Diagnostic characters: Body cylindrical, females are larger than males; curved dorsally; proboscis armed with 12 rows of 22-24 hooks, hooks on dorsal side smaller and more curved; proboscis sheath double walled, long; in male testes tandem, prequatorial; cement glands two, tubular.

Distribution: India: Odisha, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Puducherry and West Bengal.

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

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