OCCASIONAL PAPER No. 349 Metacercarial Fauna of India K.C. PANDEY and NIRUPAMA AGRAWAL Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow-226007 (Uttar Pradesh) Edited by The Director, Zoological Survey of India Zoological Survey of India Kolkata CITATION Pandey, KC. and Agrawal, Nirupama. 2013. Metacercarial Fauna of India, Rec. zaol. Surv. India, Gcc. Paper No., 349 : 1-310, (Published by the Director, Zool. Surv. 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PRICE India : ~ 800/­ Foreign: $ 45; £ 30 Published at the Publication Division by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053 and printed at East India Photo Composing Centre, Kolkata-700 006. PREFACE The work on Trematode fauna of India was carried out by well known helminthologists of the country like Bhalerao, Chauhan, Mehra and Srivastava, etc. However, no attention has been paid by earlier workers to record the very important infective larval stage of trematodes, i.e. the metacercaria, although records of few groups of Cercariae are available (Sewell, Mukherjee). Another important reason which can be cited is that Indian literature is not easily available to the parasitologists, who are interested to work in this area. Therefore, the present work on "Metacercarial Fauna of India" is undertaken. We are profoundly thankful to Prof. David I. Gibson, Editor, Systematic Parasitology, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, U.K. who maintained an unfailing supply of articles and acted as the conveyor belt for a multitude of articles. We are also thankful to Prof. R. Madhavi Department of Zoology, Andhra University, Waltair, without whose help this work would not have taken shape. We extend our gratitude to Prof. P. Janardan from Calicut, Prof. U. Shame em from Waltair, Dr. A.M.Saxena of Lucknow University, Dr. S. Chakraborti of ZSI, Kolkata, Dr. R.B. Bind of IVRI, Bareilley and Prof. Bhargavi from Hyderabad for their immense help in procuring the literature. Help received from Dr. Amita Devak, Dr. B.K. Gupta and Dr. Rahul Gupta is also gratefully acknowledged. We express our deepest appreciation to Dr. K. Venkatraman, Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata for his keen interest and support. Thanks are also due to DST for financial assistance and UGC New Delhi for recognizing the thrust area "Helminth Taxonomy" under SAP-DRS I programme of the Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow (U. P.). In the present work, we have recorded trematode metacercariae, described till date, including those whose life histories have been worked out, along with their hosts and locality. The metacercarial groups have been placed, by and large, according to the Trematode classification, given by eminent Indian helminthologist and former Head of the Department of Zoology, University of Allahabad, Late Prof. H. R. Mehra, (1970 & 1980). K.C.Pandey and Nirupama Agrawal RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA OCCASIONAL PAPER 349 2013 Page 1-310 CONTENTS Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 1 History of Indian Work on Metacercariae .................................................................... 1 Class TREMATODA Rudolphi, 1808 Subclass DIGENEA Benedon, 1858 Syn : Malcobothridia Burmeister, 1856 Syn : Malacocotylea Monticelli, 1892 Order STRIGEATOIDEA La Rue, 1926 1. Suborder STRIGEATA La Rue, 1926 Superfamily STRIGEOIDEA Railliet, 1919 I. Group Tetracotyle Faust, 1918 1. T. ranae Kaw, 1950 ..................................................................................................... 10 2. T. sophoriensis Singh, 1956 ......................................................................................... 11 3. T. indicus Singh, 1956 ................................................................................................. 12 4. T. ujjainensis Trivedi, 1964 ......................................................................................... 13 5. T. mesentriformis (Rai & Pande, 1964) nom. nov.................................................... 14 6. T. gorakhpurensis (Rai and Pande, 1969) nom. nov................................................. 15 7. T. fausti (Rai and Pande, 1969) nom. nov................................................................ 17 8. T. mathuraensis (Rai and Pande, 1969) nom. nov.................................................... 18 9. T. szidati Chakrabarti and Baugh, 1970 ...................................................................... 19 10. T. xenentodoni Chakrabarti, 1970 ................................................................................ 20 11. T. muscularis Chakrabarti, 1970 .................................................................................. 21 12. T. glossogobii Chakrabarti, 1970 ................................................................................. 22 13. T. lali Pandey, 1970 ..................................................................................................... 23 14. Metacercaria of Proalaroides tropidontis Vidyarthi, 1937 .......................................... 24 (Described by Mukherjee and Ghosh, 1970) 15. T. lucknowensis Pandey, 1971 ..................................................................................... 25 16. T. singhi Pandey 1973 ................................................................................................. 26 17. T. baughi Pandey, 1973 ............................................................................................... 27 18. T. tandoni Pandey, 1973 .............................................................................................. 28 vi 19. T. bufoi Agrawal, 1975 ................................................................................................ 28 20. T. aglandulata Baugh and Chakrabarti, 1977 ............................................................. 29 21. T. Iymnaei Pandey & Agrawal, 1978 .......................................................................... 31 22. T. gyanpurensis Agarwal and Singh, 1980 .................................................................. 32 23. T. chauhani Dwivedi & Dwivedi, 1981 ..................................................................... 33 24. T. pandei Agrawal and Khan, 1982 ............................................................................ 34 25. T. srivastavai Agarwal and Khan, 1982 ..................................................................... 35 26. T. ramaJingi Agrawal and Khan, 1982 ....................................................................... 36 27. T. simhai Pandey and Tiwari, 1983 ............................................................................ 37 28. T. sanjivi Pandey and Tiwari, 1983 ........................................................................... 38 29. T. fotedari Pandey and Tiwari, 1983 ......................................................................... 39 30. T. satendri Tiwari & Tyagi, 1986 ............................................................................... 40 31. T. kawi Pandey & Tyagi, 1987 ................................................................................... 41 32. T. kalyani Pandey and Pandey, 2000 ......................................................................... 42 33. T. satyapaJi Pandey and Pandey, 2000 ....................................................................... 42 34. T. janardani (Sheena & lanardan, 2008) nom. nov.................................................. 43 35. Tetracotyle sp. I Vankara et al., 2011 ........................................................................ 44 II. Group Neascus Hughes, 1927 36. N. vetastai Kaw, 1950 ................................................................................................. 45 37. N. chelai Khera, 1958 .................................................................................................. 46 38. N. Pandei (Rai and Pande, 1964) nom. nov............................................................. 47 39. N. mesentriformis (Rai and Pande, 1964) nom. nov ................................................. 48 40. N. indicus Thapar 1967 ............................................................................................... 49 41. N. cirrhinus Thapar, 1967 ........................................................................................... 50 42. N. muscularis (Rai & Pande, 1969) nom. nov.......................................................... 50 43. N. elongatus (Singh, 1956) Pandey, 1970 .................................................................. 52 44. N. hepatica Chakrabarti, 1970 ..................................................................................... 53 45. N. channi Pandey, 1971 ..............................................................................................