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Studies on Indian cercariae

I. Strigeoid cercariae

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Three new species of strigeoid cercariae,viz., Cercariae indicae LXIII, LXIV and LXV are described.C. indicae LXIII and LXIV are pharyngeate, distomate, longifurcate furcocercous cercariae with respectively six and eight pairs of flame cells in the body.C. indicae LXV is a pharyngeate, monostomate, longifurcate furcocercous cercaria with eight pairs of flame cells in the body.C. kumaunensis, a cyathocotylid cercaria, is reported from Andhra Pradesh also. Suppression of the various sub-groups of cyathocotylid cercariae, which neither have any taxonomic validity nor indicate any phylogenetic relationship, is advocated.

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  1. A. S. Murty

    Present address: Department of Zoology, Andhra University Postgraduate Centre, 522005, Guntur

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Communicated by Prof. P. N. Ganapati, F.A.Sc.

Part of a Ph.D. Thesis approved by Andhra University, Waltair.

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Murty, A.S. Studies on Indian cercariae. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 82, 117–125 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03050524

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