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On six new avian cestodes from India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Kunwar Suresh Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, Post-Graduate College of Animal Sciences, Mukteswar-Kumaun, U.P., India

Extract

Six new species of cestodes from birds have been described. These are: Ophryocotyle indicus from the Rufous Babbler, Turdoides subrufus; Biuterina dicruri from the Grey Drongo, Dicrurus leucophaeus longicaudatus; Choanotaenia tandani from the Himalayan Whistling Thrush, Myiophoneus caeruleus temminckii; Choanotaenia picusi from the Scalybellied Green Woodpecker, Picus squamatus; Panuwa stylicirrosa from the Little Scalybellied Green Woodpecker, Picus xanthopygaeus; and Anoncotaenia indica from the Rufous-bellied Niltava, Muscicapa sundara.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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