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A new species ofEimeria (Protozoa: Eimeriidae) infesting the small intestine of a Chiroptera-Taphozous melanopogon Temminek, collected from Andaman Islands is described in this paper. The criteria for considering it as new species to science are given and these have been compared with the five species ofEimeria hitherto described from Chiropteran hosts. This seems to be the first record of a coccidium from a Chiropteran host in India.
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Communicated by Dr. T. S. Mahabale,f.a.sc.
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Mandal, A.K., Nair, K.N. A new species of coccidium fromTaphozous melanopogon Temminek (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Andaman Islands. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 77, 243–246 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03045596
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03045596