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Title

One known and an unknown species of the genus Thaparocleidus Jain, 1952, infecting Sperata aor (Hamilton, 1822): comparison with species from China, on molecular basis

 

Authors

Saroj Rajvanshi & Nirupama Agrawal*

 

Affiliation

Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, 226007, Uttar Pradesh, India.

 

Email

dr_neeru_1954@yahoo.co.in; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Received May 25, 2013; Accepted May 27, 2013; Published June 29, 2013

 

Abstract

Sperata aor commonly called as long- whiskered cat fish or “Bada Tengan” in local fish markets harboured one new and one previously known species of genus Thaparocleidus Jain, 1952, along with two species of Cornudiscoides Kulkarni, 1969, infesting gills. Thaparocleidus aori (Rizvi, 1971) Lim, 1996, was earlier described by Rizvi therefore was briefly recorded in the present study, except the egg. The newly found species Thaparocleidus susanae n.sp was characterized by the structure of its peculiar copulatory organ. Phylogenetic relationship of the two species under study, along with 14, reterived from GenBank was established using the sequences of 28S rDNA region (Dactylogyrus Diesing, 1850 taken as an out group).

 

Keywords

Thaparocleidus, 28S rDNA, Phylogenetic analysis.

 

Citation

Rajvanshi & Agrawal,   Bioinformation 9(11): 577-582 (2013)

 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.