Acanthosentis assamensis n. sp. from the intestine of a fresh water fish Puntius chola (Ham-Buch) and Puntius sophore (Ham-Buch) from Chatla Haor, Silchar, Assam

Huidrom Puinyabati^a*, Maibam Shomorendra^a & Devashish Kar^b
aFish disease Research Lab, Department of Zoology, Thambal Marik College, Oinam-795134, Manipur
^bDivision of Wetlands, Fishery Science and Aquaculture, Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam
(Central) University, Silchar-11, India
Received 30th October, 2013; Revised 15th December, 2013

Abstract : Acanthosentis assamensis n. sp. from the intestine of the fresh water fish Puntius chola (Ham-Buch) and P. sophore (Ham-Buch) has been described and compared with the other known species of the genus Acanthosentis Verma et Datta, 1929. The authors have reason to consider the acanthocephata to be new.

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