Platyhelminthes Parasites of Fish of Economic Importance from Diamond Harbour, West Bengal

Abstract

Diamond Harbour lies on the eastern bank of River Hooghly where the river meets the Bay of Bengal and is located in South 24 Parganas district, the gateway to the places like Kakdwip, Namkhana, Bakkhali and Nischintapur. The fish have been collected from areas in and around Diamond Harbour, Nischintapur, Kakdwip and Namkhana. Our present study is on trematodes and acanthocephala of fish of economic importance from Diamond Harbour. This project has been undertaken to make a detailed study on that. 38 species under 28 genera and 17 families of trematode parasites and 5 species under 4 genera and 3 families of Acanthocephala parasites from fish Hosts have been described in the present study.