• Rajput Kiransing Hirasing

ABSTRACT The present study deals with a new species of the genus Phoreiobothrium with its type species P. hemalatae n.sp. which is collected from Mobula mobular a marine water fish from Ratnagiri (West Coast of India). The worm comes closer to all known species of the genus Phoreiobothrium in general topography of organ but differs due to quadrangular shaped scolex with four sessile bothridia, neck is long but without spines, mature proglottids two to three times longer than broad, ovary, massive compact mass placed transversely, cirrus pouch placed anterior 1/3rd part of proglottids, Testes 35 to 40 in number, pre and post ovarian, genital pore opens marginally, regularly alternate vagina posterior to cirrus pouch, uterus reaching almost to anterior extremity, sac like in shape. Vitellaria granular and corticular placed in two lateral fields all over the proglottids except the cirrus pouch region pre and post ovarian.

Cestode parasite, Mobula mobular, Phoreiobothrium hemalatae n.sp., Ratnagiri (West Coast of India)

"SYSTEMATIC STUDIES ON A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS PHOREIOBOTHRIUM FROM MOBULA MOBULAR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no.b59-b63, July-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207105.pdf

"SYSTEMATIC STUDIES ON A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS PHOREIOBOTHRIUM FROM MOBULA MOBULAR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no. ppb59-b63, July-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207105.pdf