| cestodes (caryophyllidea) of the stinging catfish heteropneustes fossilis (siluriformes: heteropneustidae) from asia. | the stinging catfish heteropneustes fossilis (bloch) (siluriformes: heteropneustidae) has been reported to harbor as many as 19 species of caryophyllidean tapeworms (cestoda) of 11 genera in tropical asia (indomalayan zoogeographical region). however, a critical review of the species composition has shown that only 1 species, lucknowia fossilisi gupta, 1961 (lytocestidae), is a specific parasite of h. fossilis. three other species, djombangia penetrans bovien, 1926 (syn., djombangia caballeroi s ... | 2011 | 21561334 |