• Dr.Mayur Darbeswar
• Dr. Dhanraj Balbhim Bhure
• Dr. Sanjay Shamrao Nanware

Present investigation deals with a new species of the genus Azygia Looss, 1899 from the intestine of Channa marulius from Bhokar, Loha, Kandhar, Nanded (M.S.) India were found infected with One Hundred Twenty (120) trematode parasites during June, 2019 to May, 2021. The new species Azygia indica Sp.Nov. comes closer to all known species of the genus Azygia in general topography of organ but differs due to body is elongated, medium, non-spinose, dorsoventrally flattened with rounded extremities, oral sucker sub-terminal, spherical, ventral sucker larger than oral suckers, spherical, pre-equatorial, Pre-pharynx absent, Pharynx muscular, immediately behind oral suckers, Oesophagus oval, muscular, Intestinal caeca broad, slightly sinuous, runs alongside of the body, genital pore pre-acetabular, excretory pore lies at posterior end of body, testes are oval in shape and situated side by side, preovarian, cirrus pouch elongated, lying at anterior side of ventral suckers, cirrus muscular, tubular, within cirrus pouch, forms vas deferens, Vas deferens short tube, bifurcates and forms vasa efferentia, vasa efferentia are long, runs posteriorly and reaches to testes, ovary compact, lies lateral to posterior to testis, vitellaria are follicular, small, extending from ventral sucker, uterus arises from ootype, lying transversely between ovary and posterior border of ventral sucker, eggs elongated, oval, non-operculated.

Azygia indica Sp.Nov., Channa marulius, Trematoda.

"STUDIES ON MORPHOTAXONOMY OF AZYGIA INDICA SP.NOV.FROM CHANNA MARULIUS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 10, page no.e269-e275, October-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2410429.pdf

"STUDIES ON MORPHOTAXONOMY OF AZYGIA INDICA SP.NOV.FROM CHANNA MARULIUS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 10, page no. ppe269-e275, October-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2410429.pdf