title: Occurrence of Trichodinid Ciliophorans (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) in the freshwater fishes of the river Churni with description of Trichodina glossogobae sp. nov. in West Bengal, India.
abstract: Between January 2011 and March 2011 occurrence of trichodinid ciliophorans were studied in the freshwater fishes of the river Churni. The biodiversity survey revealed presence of a new species of the genus Trichodina (Ehrenberg 1830) infesting Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton-Buchanan). Another freshwater fish Labeo bata (Hamilton 1822) were found to be infested with two species of the genus Tripartiella Lom 1959: Tripartiella bulbosa (Davis 1947) Lom 1959 and T. copiosa Lom 1959. Adhesive disc size of the new Trichodina species is small measuring 30.6-46.9 (36.2 ± 3.9) μm in diameter. The centre of the disc is finely granular and transforms into dark when impregnated with silver. The overall prevalence of this species is 15.6% (12/77). Tripartiella bulbosa and T. copiosa are very small sized ciliophorans, measuring 16.7-23.8 (20.6 ± 2.2) μm and 15.2-22.4 (19.7 ± 1.9) μm in diameter, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Ranaghat College, P.O. Ranaghat, District Nadia, 741201 West Bengal India.
authors.forename: Amlan Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Mitra
authors.forename: Probir K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Bandyopadhyay
authors.forename: Yingchun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Biplab
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bhowmik
keywords: Ciliophora; Ectoparasite; Fish; India; Trichodina glossogobae sp. nov.; Tripartiella spp.
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