First record of avian cestode Variolepis podicepsi n.sp. from Podiceps rufficolis (Pallas) from Jhansi, U.P., India
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Abstract
Twenty eight cestodes were obtained from three little grebs, Podiceps rufficolis (Pallas) from Jhansi. Morphological studies of the cestodes revealed that they belonged to the genus, Variolepis Spasskii and Spasskaja, 1954 of the sub family Hymenolepidinae Perrier, 1897 family Hymenolepidae Ralliet and Henery, 1909 and regarded as n.sp Variolepis podicepsi.
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Keywords
Greb, Jhansi, Podiceps rufficolis, Variolepis podiceps n.sp, Tapeworm
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Yamaguti, S. (1959). Systema Helminthol. The cestodes of vertebrate. Vol. 2, Interscience, Newyork, 1- 860.
Mayhew, R.L. (1925). Studies on the avian species of the cestode family Hymenolepidae III, Bil. Monogr. 10: 1-125.
Perrier, E. (1897). Classification des cestodes. Comt. Rend. Acad. Sc. 86: 552 - 554.
Poulin, R. and Morand, S. (2004). Parasite Biodiversity (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Books) pp. 216.
Ralliet, A. and Henery, A. (1909). Les cestodes du Blaireau (Meles Taxus). Compt. Rend. Soc.Biol. 53: 23 – 25.
Spasskii. A.A. and Spasskaja, L.P. (1954) Systematic structure of the Hymenolepidae Parasites in birds (In Russian) Tr. Helminthol. Lab. Akad. Nauk. SSSR, 7: 55 – 119.
Tiwari, J. P. (1987). Studies on morphology and taxonomy of certain cestodes. Ph. D. Thesis, Bundelkhand Univ. Jhansi; 1- 205.
Toft, C.A. (1986). Communities of Parasites with Parasitic life style; in Community Ecology (eds) J. M. Diamond and TJ Case (Hasper and row). pp. 445 – 463.
William, H.H. and Jones, A. (1994). Parasitic Worms of Fish (London: Taylor and Francis). pp. 593.
Yamaguti, S. (1959). Systema Helminthol. The cestodes of vertebrate. Vol. 2, Interscience, Newyork, 1- 860.
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First record of avian cestode Variolepis podicepsi n.sp. from Podiceps rufficolis (Pallas) from Jhansi, U.P., India. (2012). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 4(1), 71-74. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v4i1.225
