Lecithocladium excisum ( Rudolphi, 1819 ) Luhe, 1901
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Lecithocladium excisum ( Rudolphi, 1819 ) Luhe, 1901 |
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4. Lecithocladium excisum ( Rudolphi, 1819) Luhe, 1901 View in CoL Figure 1 (c)
1819. Distoma excisum Rudolphi, Berol. : 411
1901. Lecithocladium excisum Luhe, Zool. Anz. 24: 395
Material examined: 4 examples; Host: Hilsa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822) ; location: intestine; locality: Diamond Harbour, West Bengal; collector: S. Chakrabarti & party .
Diagnostic characters: Body tubular, elongated, ecsoma present, longer than somatic body; oral sucker larger than acetabulum; prepharynx absent; pharynx large, cylindrical; oesophagus short; testes tandem; ovary posttesticular, near posterior end of soma; vitellaria with seven long tubule like lobes, situated near posterior end of somatic body; uterine coil extends into ecsoma; excretory vesicle ‘Y’ shaped.
Distribution: India: Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat & West Bengal. Elsewhere: Mediterranean, Black sea, Atlantic, Baltic. Pacific, Sea of Japan, Putiatin Island, New Zealand
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