Two New Digenetic Trematodes Allocreadium Baruaii And Allocreadium Rajghatii (Family Allocreadiidae Stossich, 1903) From Fresh Water Fish Channa Punctatus (Bl.) Of Different Water Bodies, District Jhansi Bundelkhand Region

Abstract

The present investigation is a study on helminth fauna from economically important fishes of Bundelkhand region, district Jhansi. The new species Allocreadium baruaii differs from all known species in having prepharynx, sub-spherical ovary, parallel to anterior testis, extension of vitelline glands anterior margin of ovary, oral sucker is larger than ventral sucker, oval pharynx, tandem and equal size of testis and in having larger size of operculated eggs. The new species Allocreadium rajghatii differs in having long tubular oesophagus, larger size of cirrus extending laterally, larger size of the ovary, extension of vitelline follicles, position of testes post equatorial and overlapping and in the position of genital pore.