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On Three New Species of Opistholebes (Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929) from the Globe fish, Tetraodon viridipunctatus (Gunther) from India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Amar Nath Gupta
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Udaipur, Udaipur, (Rajasthan), India

Extract

Three new species of the genus Opistholebes (Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929) are described from the small intestine of the globefish, Tetraodon viridipunctatus (Gunther) in India.

A key to the species of the genus Opistholebes Nicoll, 1915 is given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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