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New Allocreadiids (Trematoda) from Indian marine food fishes

Part IV. The morphology and systematic position of a new genus, Horatrema, of digenetic trematodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Har Dayal Srivastava
Affiliation:
Imperial Veterinary Research Institute, Muktesar

Extract

In the course of an extensive parasitological examination of Indian food fishes the author recovered, amongst others, six specimens of an interesting trematode from the gut of a fish examined at Karachi in June 1936. The trematode, though obviously belonging to the family Allocreadiidae, represents a new genus, Horatrema, and a new subfamily, Horatrematinae. This new genus forms a connecting link between Cymbephallus Linton, in Manter, 1934, and Parva-creadium Manter, 1940, of the subfamily Allocreadiinae, and the type genus Notoporus of the family Notoporidae Yamaguti, 1938. It will be appreciated from the systematic discussion at the end of the paper that the taxonomic status of the family Notoporidae is untenable, and it is, therefore, reduced to the rank of a subfamily, Notoporinae, under the family Allocreadiidae. Further, in view of the presence of a cirrus-sac in Notoporus trachuri Yamaguti, 1938, it has been considered necessary to assign it to a new genus, Neonotoporus

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1942

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