Azygia angusticauda ( Stafford, 1904 ) Manter, 1926

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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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i3/2017/120967

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13184818

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scientific name

Azygia angusticauda ( Stafford, 1904 ) Manter, 1926
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27. Azygia angusticauda ( Stafford, 1904) Manter, 1926 View in CoL

Figure 6 (a-c)

1904. Mimodistomum angusticaudum Stafford, Zool. Anz. 27 (16-17): 488

1926. Azygia angusticauda Manter, Illioines Biol. Monogr. , 10 (2): 186

Material examined: Six examples; Host: Channa punctatus (Bloch, 1793) ; location: intestine; locality: Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Host: Chanda nama (Hamilton, 1822) ; location: stomach; locality: Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal.

Diagnostic characters: Body elongated; oral sucker almost equal to acetabulum; prepharynx absent; pharynx small; oesophagus indistinct; testes oblique, transversely elongated; ovary pretesticular, transversely elongated, kidney shaped; uterus located in between ovary and acetabulum; vitelline follicles extends from the level of acetabulum to posterior end of the body; excretory vesicle ‘Y’ shaped.

Distribution: India: Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: North America

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