| first record of myxozoan parasites from fresh water fishes of jammu and kashmir and their pathogenecity. | the present study was aimed to isolate myxozoan parasites infecting the native carp schizothorax esocinus (heckel) and pond reared carp labeo rohita (ham.) collected from fresh water ecosystems of jammu and kashmir from july 2013 to june 2014. various organs such as eyes, gills, scales, fins, intestines, visceral organs and pericardial cavity of as many as 100 live specimens were examined. results revealed that 14% of the examined l. rohita were infected with myxobolus rocatlae (ham.) and 6% of ... | 2017 | 28232055 |
| myxobolus chushi n. sp. (myxozoa:myxosporea) parasitizing schizothorax niger (heckel), a native cyprinid fish from wullar lake in kashmir himalayas. | in the study, a new species, myxobolus chushi n. sp. infecting gills of wild specimens of schizothorax niger (heckel) inhabiting wullar lake in kashmir himalayas, (j&k) india has been described based on morphology of the myxospore and using partial 18s rdna sequencing. pathological changes in the gills have been studied with the help of histological sections stained with luna's method. twenty fish specimens were examined, out of which four had oval, white plasmodia in gills measuring 2.0×0.5mm. ... | 2017 | 28232063 |
| description of a new quadrigyrid acanthocephalan from kashmir, with notes on metal analysis and histopathology, and a key to species of the subgenus acanthosentis from the indian subcontinent. | acanthogyrus (acanthosentis) kashmirensis n. sp. is described from recently collected acanthocephalan specimens in the jhelum river in northern kashmir that are conspecific with neoechinorhynchus kashmirensis fotedar and dhar, 1977 originally described in a ph.d. thesis in 1972 from 4 species of cyprinid fishes: tor tor hamilton, bangana diplostoma (heckel) (syn. labeo diplostoma heckel), labeo rohita hamilton, and ptychobarbus sp. steindachner. the poor unpublished diagnosis was followed by 1 u ... | 2017 | 28589837 |