Year: 2018, Issue: June

On the transference of a Caryophyllaeid cestode Pliovitellaria osteobramensis Gupta and Sinha, 1984; to the genus Lobulovarium Oros et al., 2012 (Lytocestidae) is unwarranted - A critical review.

Author:

Ravi Rahul Singh, Nayni Saxena and Umapati Sahay

Keyword:

Pliovitellaria osteobramensis, Lobulovarium, Paracaryophyllaeus, Resurrect.

Pliovitellaria osteobramensis Gupta and Sinha (1984) a cestode of the family Caryophyllaeidae has been transferred to the genus Paracaryophyllaeus Kulakovaskaja (1961) by Hafeezullah (1993) which is not justified. The authors have reasons to resurrect the status of Pliovitellaria osteobramensis. They also have reasons not to place the said species in the genus Lobulovarium Oros et al. (2012).