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Year: 2019, Issue: December
Studies on a new species of genus Senga Dollfus,1934 (Cestoda : Ptychobothridae) from intestine of Mystus seenghala Sykes,1839.
Author:
P. S. Bele, G. D. Gore and S. S. Nanware
Keyword:
Cestodes, Freshwater fish, Mystus seenghala, Ptychobothridae, Senga.
Senga banshelkinesis, a new cestode species from the intestine of freshwater fish M.seenghala has been described and compared with the other known species of the genus Senga in the lunes of work by Dollfus (1934). It differs from all the known species of the genus in having triangular scolex, 37 rostellar hooks, Mature segment broader than long, testes 160 in numbers and follicular Vitellaria.
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