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Year: 2019, Issue: June
Redescription of Masenia collata Chatterji,1933 (Trematoda : Maseniidae, Yamaguti,1954), a parasite of catfish, Wallago attu Bleeker,1851.
Author:
Vikram Satwarao Deshmukh, Sanjay Shamrao Nanware and Dhanraj Balbhim Bhure
Keyword:
Maseniidae, Masenia collata, Trematodes, Wallago attu.
During collection of Piscean trematode parasites, Twenty Seven trematode were collected from the Sixteen infected intestines out of One Hundred Twenty examined freshwater fish host Wallago attu (Bleeker,1851) at Bhokar dist. Nanded (M.S.) during the period of February,2011-January,2013 and identified as Masenia collata Chatterji,1933. The present form comes closer to previously described species Masenia collata Chatterji,1933 in having body ovoid, elongated, pharynx muscular, genital pore pre-acetabular, ovary oval and follicular vitellaria, but differs due to body non spinose, oral sucker triangular, ovary post-testicular and testes pre-ovarian.
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