PSEUDOCAPILLARIA-INDICA SP-N (NEMATODA, CAPILLARIIDAE) FROM THE SNAKEHEAD, CHANNA-GACHUA (HAMILTON) (PISCES), FROM SOUTHERN INDIA

Authors
MORAVEC F BEEVI MR RADHAKRISHNAN S ARTHUR JR
Citation
F. Moravec et al., PSEUDOCAPILLARIA-INDICA SP-N (NEMATODA, CAPILLARIIDAE) FROM THE SNAKEHEAD, CHANNA-GACHUA (HAMILTON) (PISCES), FROM SOUTHERN INDIA, Folia parasitologica, 40(1), 1993, pp. 35-38
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Parasitiology
Journal title
Folia parasitologica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00155683
Volume
40
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
35 - 38
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-5683(1993)40:1<35:PS(CFT>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
A new nematode species, Pseudocapillaria indica sp. n., is described f rom the intestine of the freshwater fish Channa gachua (Hamilton) from Kerala, India. It resembles P. tomentosa (Dujardin, 1843), differing from it mainly in the structure of the proximal end of spicule, the sh ape and structure of the stichocytes and in having smaller eggs (size 0.036-0.048 x 0.023-0.027 mm) which have a different type of superfici al structure. Pseudocapillaria indica is the first capillariid species described from freshwater fishes of India and from the whole Oriental Region.