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Studies on the family hemiuridae (Trematoda: Digenea), with a description of a new genus from marine fish of Indian waters

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A new digenetic trematode, collected 1969–1970 at Ratnagiri (India) from the marine eel Leptocephalus conger, is described as Indostomachicola kinnei n. g., n. sp. The new genus differs from Stomachicola Yamaguti, 1934 and Allostomachicola Yamaguti, 1958 in many characteristics. The new species is characterized by an unlobed ovary, absence of receptaculum seminis, and presence of post-acetabular seminal vesicle and a ventral pit.

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  1. A. N. Gupta

    Present address: Department of Zoology, University of Udaipur, Udaipur(Rajasthan), India

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Udaipur, Udaipur(Rajasthan), India

    P. N. Sharma

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Communicated by N. K. Panikkar, Panaji

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Gupta, A.N., Sharma, P.N. Studies on the family hemiuridae (Trematoda: Digenea), with a description of a new genus from marine fish of Indian waters. Marine Biology 19, 89–91 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00355424

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