ON A NEW TYLOCEPHALUM SHINDEI (CESTODA:LECANICEPHALIDAE) FROM RHYNCHOBATUS DJEDDENSIS AT BHATE IN MAHARASHTRA,INDIA

Lazarus Lanka, Rajshekar Hippargi, Suresh Khabade
2013 unpublished
The present paper deals with the description of new a species, under the genus Tylocephalum Linton, 1890, as Tylocephalum shindei n.sp., which is having scolex large, globular, divided into anterior and posterior region having 4 circular suckers. The neck is short and wide; mature segments are longer than broad. Testes are medium in size, round, pre-ovarian, and anterior to cirrus pouch. Cirrus pouch is large in size, oval, vas deferens is short and thin; ovary is large , quadrangular, bilobed,
more » ... numerous acini. Vagina is a wide tube, ootype is large, round in shape, post-ovarian; genital pores are regularly alternate, big in size, oval in shape. Uterus issaccular, vitellaria are granular.
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