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A new species of genus Ganeo Klein, 1905 collected from Indus Valley Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of District Umerkot, Sindh, Pakistan

Author: Attia Bushra, Nadir Ali Birmani, Ali Murtaza Dharejo and Muhammad Munif Khan and Saeeda Anjum Buriro

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Abstract

A survey was conducted on the helminth parasites of Indus Valley Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus of district Umerkot, Sindh, Pakistan. A total of 18 hosts were collected from different aquatic habitats and examined for the presence of helminth parasites. During examination of gut contents and visceral organs, three trematodes belonging to genus Ganeo Klein, 1905 were recovered from small intestine and identified as theGaneo kabeeri n.sp. Present species differs from its congeners on the basis of the spinose body slightly tapering anteriorly; subterminal oral sucker larger than ventral sucker; shape of cirrus sac; shape and arrangement of testes; bilobed ovary attached with ventral sucker and posterior testis; distribution and extension of vitellaria; shape and extension of ceca and egg size.

Keywords

Hoplobatrachus tigerinus,Trematode, Ganeo kabeeri, Sindh Pakistan

Conclusion

A survey was conducted on the helminth parasites of Indus Valley Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus of district Umerkot, Sindh, Pakistan. A total of 18 hosts were collected from different aquatic habitats and examined for the presence of helminth parasites. During examination of gut contents and visceral organs, three trematodes belonging to genus Ganeo Klein, 1905 were recovered from small intestine and identified as theGaneo kabeeri n.sp. Present species differs from its congeners on the basis of the spinose body slightly tapering anteriorly; subterminal oral sucker larger than ventral sucker; shape of cirrus sac; shape and arrangement of testes; bilobed ovary attached with ventral sucker and posterior testis; distribution and extension of vitellaria; shape and extension of ceca and egg size.

References

Klein 1905 proposed the genus Ganeo with G. glottoides as the type species obtained from a Frog, Rana hexadactyla from India. He tentatively placed this genus under subfamily Pleurogenetinae Looss (1899). Odhner (1911) discussed its systematic position and assigned this genus to the subfamily Pleurogenetinae of the family Lecithodendriidae. Trematodes of genus Ganeo reported from Pakistan are; Ganeo gastricus (Sarivastava,1933) Bilqees and Kaikobad, 1976; Farooq and Khan, 1994 from R.cyanophlyctis and R. tigrina. Ganeo kumaonensis (Pande, 1937) Bhutta and Khan,1975 from Rana tigrina. Ganeo macrocotyle (Bilqees and Kaikobad, 1976) Farooq and khan 1994 from Rana tigrina. G. sirinagarensis (Kaw,1951) Bilqees and Kaikobad, 1976 from R. cyanophlyctis and G. tigrina (Mehra and Negi,1928) Bilqees and Kaikobad, 1976 Farooq and Khan, 1994 from R. tigerina.Ganeo karachiensis Khatoon et al., 2011, Ganeo bicaudatum Khatoon et al., 2012. Ganeo elongatum Khatoon et al., 2012, G. jonesae, N. Khat

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Attia Bushra, Nadir Ali Birmani, Ali Murtaza Dharejo and Muhammad Munif Khan and Saeeda Anjum Buriro. (2017). A new species of genus Ganeo Klein, 1905 collected from Indus Valley Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of District Ume