Volume : 5, Issue : 10, October - 2016

A NEW PROTEOCEPHALIDEAN TAPEWORM, GANGESIA (GANGESIA) SHAHGADENSIS N-SP.FROM GODAVARI RIVER-FRESH WATER CATFISH WALLAGO ATTU AT SHAHGAD, DIST-JALNA (MS) INDIA.

A. N. Mote

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;The present communication which deals with the proteocephalusGangesia (Gangesia) shahgadensis from Godavari riverDist Jalna (MS) India. The worms closer to all the known species iof this genus, scolex round, oval, rostellar hooks 20to 25, proglottids oader than long, testes 250-300 in number, ovary bilobed, vitallaria follicular, round in shape.</p>