The status of Ganeo devendrai Gupta & Verma (2012)1 (Lecithodendriidae: Trematoda) – a critical review

A.P.V.Khalkho^a*, Anita Jha^b , Umapati Sahay^c & Fauzia Sadaf^d
aDeptt. of Zoology, Womens College, Chaibasa, Jharkhand, India
^bDeptt. of Zoology, Gardanibagh Girls College, Patna, Bihar, India.
^c Retd. Univ. Prof. & Head, Dept. of Zoology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jhrakhand, India.
^dResearch Scholar, Gardanibag Girls College, Patna, Bihar, India

Received , 15th January, 2013 ;Revised: 15th February, 2013

Abstract : Gupta and Verma (2012)1 described a new species of a trematode of the genus Ganeo called G.devendrai but provided camera lucida drawing of G.patnensis (vide Recent Life Sc.Mirror,1(I): 21-24. This is a serious mistake.
The present authors intend to critically examine the validity of G.devendrai on the basis of the informations of different species available under the genus Ganeo and wish to point out the lacunae of the said research article.
The authors have reasons to place the trematode Ganeo devendrai a species under enquiry.
Key words : Ganeo devendrai, Critical review.

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