Bianium plictum ( Linton, 1928 ) Stunkard, 1930

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

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scientific name

Bianium plictum ( Linton, 1928 ) Stunkard, 1930
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12. Bianium plictum ( Linton, 1928) Stunkard, 1930

1928. Psilostomum plictum Linton Proc. U. S. nat . Mus. 73: 5

1930. Bianium plictum Stunkard Z. Parasit. 3: 713-725

1999. B. plictum : Hafeezullah & Dutta, Fauna of West Bengal (Part 11): 133-222

Material examined: Nil. Host: Torquigener oblongus (Bloch, 1786) ; location; intestine; locality: Hooghly estuary, Diamond Harbour, West Bengal.

Diagnostic characters: Body linguiform, elongated; oral sucker subterminal; acetabulum smaller than oral sucker; anterior margin of the pharynx lobed; prepharynx indistinct; testes tandem, post equatorial; ovary pretesticular, multilobed; genital pore situated at the level of anterior margin of acetabulum; vitelline follicles extend upto acetabular level; excretory vessels tubular.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu & West Bengal. Elsewhere: American, Atlantic & Pacific.

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