*Research and Post Graduate, Department of Zoology, Yeshwant Mahavidyalaya, Nanded - 431 602 (M. S.)
**Department of Zoology, Shri. Sant Gadge Maharaj Mahavidyalaya, Loha - 431 708 (Dist.- Nanded) (M. S.)
Online published on 24 March, 2014.
The present investigation deals with taxonomic observation of the trematode parasites Orientocreadium batrachoides Tubangui, 1931, parasite of freshwater fish Channa gachua from Aurangabad district of M.S. India. Present worm resembles Orientocreadium batrachoides Tubangui, 1931 in having all essential morphological characters i.e. body is elongated, small, spinose, muscular Pharynx, crescent shaped cirrus pouch and follicular vitellaria, but the same differs from it in the following character Pre pharynx absent, oral sucker smaller, ventral sucker larger, Position of testes side by side and eggs elongated. Hence it is redescribed.
Trematode parasite, Orientocreadium batrachoides, Channa gachua, Aurangabad
