Two new myxosporidia (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) of the genus Myxobolus Butschli, 1882 from cornea of Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758) caught from a fish farm in India

North-Western Journal of Zoology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 165-169

  Hemananda, Thounaojam ^a   Mohilal, Naorem ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Probir K ^b   Mitra, Amlan Kumar ^b  

^a MANIPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

Author keywords

Fish; India; Manipur; Myxobolus clariae; Myxobolus utlouensis; Myxosporidia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLARIAS BATRACHUS; MYXOBOLUS; MYXOSPOREA; MYXOZOA;

EID: 69549130982     PISSN: 15849074     EISSN: 18435629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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