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Studies on Trichodinid and Chilodonellid Ciliophorans (Protozoa: Ciliophora) in the Indian freshwater and estuarine fishes with description of Trichodinella sunderbanensis sp. nov. and Trichodina nandusi sp. nov.

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A comprehensive icthyoparasotological survey among estuarine and freshwater fishes of West Bengal, India revealed Trichodinella sunderbanensis sp. nov. and Trichodina acuta Lom, 1961 from an estuarine fish Mystus gulio (Hamilton, 1822) from the Vidyadhari river; Trichodina nandusi sp. nov. from a freshwater fish, Nandus nandus (Hamilton-Buchanan); Chilodonella hexasticha (Kiernik, 1909) Kahl, 1931 from freshwater fishes Labeo rohita (Hamilton, 1822); and Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 from the Rupnarayan river. Taxonomic description of all the species based on wet silver nitrate impregnation method along with additional comments based on scanning electron microscopic descriptions of T. nandusi sp. nov. are also provided in this paper. Prevalence rate, morphometric parameters and comparisons with closely related species are also discussed.

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One of the authors (AKM) is thankful to the University Grants Commission (UGC) (Eastern Regional Office), LB-8, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700-098, West Bengal for providing financial support in the form of Minor Research Project (MRP) vide sanction no. F. PSW-087/10-11 (ERO). AKM is also thankful to the Teacher-in-Charge and the head of the Department of Zoology, Ranaghat College for allowing him to use necessary laboratory facilities.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Ranaghat College, P.O. Ranaghat, Dist. Nadia, Pin- 741201, West Bengal, India

    Amlan Kumar Mitra

  2. Parasitology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India

    Probir K. Bandyopadhyay

  3. Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Conservation of Aquatic Organisms, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Yingchun Gong

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Mitra, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, P.K. & Gong, Y. Studies on Trichodinid and Chilodonellid Ciliophorans (Protozoa: Ciliophora) in the Indian freshwater and estuarine fishes with description of Trichodinella sunderbanensis sp. nov. and Trichodina nandusi sp. nov.. Parasitol Res 112, 1077–1085 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-012-3234-x

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