• Devendra Patil
• Ajit Kalse
• PratibaPatole
• Sunil Patil

The genus Cotugnia was erected by Diamare (1893) with the type of species C. diagonopora collected from domestic fowl. Four specimens of cestode parasites were collected from the intestine of Gallus gallusdomesticusat Shirpur, Dist. Dhule. The present cestode have Scolex large in size, rectangular in shape, rostellum is armed with numerous hooks, testes 90-100 in number, oval in shape, ovary medium in size with irregular margin, vagina ventral to cirrus pouch, ootype small, oval. It was compared and differs from six species and considered as a new species, Cotugniashindeae. gallusdomesticus,Ovary.

Cotugnia, Gallus

"Taxonomeric Evaluation of a New Avian Cestode Cotugnia (Cestoda: Davaineidae) Infecting Gallusgallusdomesticus", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.455-461, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAO06068.pdf

"Taxonomeric Evaluation of a New Avian Cestode Cotugnia (Cestoda: Davaineidae) Infecting Gallusgallusdomesticus", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp455-461, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAO06068.pdf