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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

   Rhabditida

Spiruria

              Seuratoidea

               Quimperidae

       Paragendria Baylis, 1939

Type species of the genus: Paragendria macronis (Stewart, 1914) Baylis, 1939

    Synonyms:

Heterakis macronis Stewart, 1914

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Although Pingus and Paragendria are similar, they have mostly been considered valid (Chabaud 1978, Soota 1983, Sood 1989; Moravec et al., 2008).

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Distribution:

Intestinal parasites of the freshwater fish. Many of the species are described from catfishes in India, Bangladesh and China (Moravec et al., 2008).

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Feeding:

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Life Cycle:

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Management:

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References:

Baylis, H.A. 1939. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Nematoda, Vol. II. (Filarioidea, Dioctophymoidea and Trichinelloidea). Taylor & Francis, London, 274 pp

Chabaud, A.G. 1978. Keys to genera of the superfamilies Cosmocercoidea, Seuratoidea, Heterakoidea and Subuluroidea. In: R.C. Anderson, A.G. Chabaud and S. Willmott (Eds.), CIH Keys to the Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates 6. Commonwealth Agric. Bureaux, Farnham Royal, Bucks (UK), 71 pp

Moravec, F., Riha, M., Kuchta, R. 2008. Two new nematode species, Paragendria papuanensis sp. n. (Seuratoidea) and Rhabdochona papuanensis sp. n. (Thelazioidea), from freshwater fishes in Papua New Guinea. Folia Parasitologica 55:127-135.

Sood, M.L. 1989. Fish Nematodes from South Asia. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi – Ludhiana, 703 pp.

Soota, T.D. 1983. Studies on Nematode Parasites of Indian Vertebrates I. Fishes. Zoological Survey of India, Occas. Pap. No. 54, Calcutta, 352 pp.

Stewart, F.H. 1914. Studies in Indian helminthology, No. 1. Rec. Indian Mus. 10: 165–193 + Plts. XVIII–XXIII.

Copyright 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: November 07, 2024.