Scientific Name: Allocreadium heteropneustusius (Agrawal,1964)
English Name: Sucking worm, intestinal fluke
Local/Bangla Name: Antrer pata krimi (অন্ত্রের পাতা কৃমি)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Allocreadiidae
Description:
The body is elongated, narrowing towards the posterior from the acetabulum. The terminal oral sucker is sub-spherical. The ventral sucker is spherical and smaller than the oral sucker. There is no prepharynx; the pharynx is muscular. The oesophagus is short, tubular, and straight or slightly curved.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
The species is an obligate endoparasite that resides inside the intestine of the freshwater fish, Heteropneustes fossilis. It is widely distributed in Bangladesh.
Environment:
Freshwater
References:
Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA and Khondker M (2008) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 15. Platyhelminthes - Nematoda. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 325 pp
Kakaji, VL (1969) Studies on helminth parasites of Indian fishes. Part. III. On some species of the genus Allocreadium Looss, 1900. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée, 44(2), 131-145.
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