Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

Payal Dattaray ¹, Viswa Venkat Gantait ², Subhadeep Roy ³, Buddhadeb Manna ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Zoology, Parasitology Laboratory, University of Calcutta, B.C. Road, Kolkata-7000019, West Bengal, IN
2 Zoological Survey of India, 'M'-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, West Bengal, IN
3 Maharajpur H.S. School, P.O. Maharajpur Paschim Medinipur-721232, West Bengal, IR

Abstract

The genus Aporcelaimellus was erected by Heyns , 1965 belonging to the family Aporcelaimidae Heyns, 1965 under the order Dorylaimida. Tjepkema et. al., (1971) provided a general review of the genus. Determination keys to the species were given by Baqri and Jairajpuri (1968) and Thorne (1974) respectively.

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Debabrata Sen ¹, Amalendu Chatterjee ¹, Buddhadeb Manna ²

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M - Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700 053, West Bengal, IN
2 Parasitology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata - 700 019, IN

Abstract

A few specimens of Trophurus clavicaudatus sp. n. and Tylenchorhynchus mashhoodi Siddiqi and Basir, 1959 were collected from soil around the ischolar_mains of litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) at South 24- Parganas district. West Bengal, India. Among 14 valid species of Trophurus Loof, 1956, as listed by Siddiqi (2000), only 4 species have been described and reported from India and other 10 species have been reported from Europe, Africa, North and South America.

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Debabrata Sen ¹, Amalendu Chatterjee ¹, Buddhadeb Manna ²

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M - Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700 053, West Bengal, IN
2 Parasitology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata - 700 019, IN

Abstract

A small female population of Indodorylaimus asaccatus sp. n. was collected from the soil around the ischolar_mains of guava (Psidium guajava L.) and that of I. baqrii sp. n. was collected from the soil around the ischolar_mains of both guava and litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) at South 24-Parganas district. West Bengal, India . The representative s of the genus Indodorylaimus Ali and Prabha, 1974 are predominant in India.

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