Journal of Helminthology

Table of Contents - 1962 - Volume 36, Issue 03  

Research Article

On Some Known and New Species of the Family Tetrameridae Travassos, 1914, from Indian Birds*

Ameer Sultanaa1

a1 Department of Zoology, College of Science, Osmania, University, Hyderabad (A.P.), India

A solitary male and two females were collected from the Indian Sand-Martin, Riparia paludicola brevicaudata. The male worm was present in the lumen, and the blood red females were embedded in cysts formed in the walls of the proventriculus.

Footnotes

* Part of the thesis submitted to the Osmania University, India, for the degree of Ph.D.