New record of two isopods Alitropus typus and Tachaea spongillicola from riverine freshwater fishes in the river Tapti

Dibakar Bhakta; Basanta Kumar Das; Suhas Prakash Kamble; Sanjoy Kumar Das; Srikanta Samanta; Santanu Mitra

doi:10.1007/s12639-021-01449-z

New record of two isopods Alitropus typus and Tachaea spongillicola from riverine freshwater fishes in the river Tapti

J Parasit Dis. 2022 Mar;46(1):18-23. doi: 10.1007/s12639-021-01449-z. Epub 2021 Sep 10.

Authors

Dibakar Bhakta¹, Basanta Kumar Das¹, Suhas Prakash Kamble¹, Sanjoy Kumar Das¹, Srikanta Samanta¹, Santanu Mitra²

Affiliations

¹ ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Monirampore, Kolkata, 700 120 West Bengal India.
² Crustacea Section, Zoological Survey of India, 27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata, 700 016 India.

Abstract

The present paper deals with the infestation of freshwater fishes Labeo boggut, Oreochromis niloticus, Systomus sarana, and Xenentodon cancila by the parasitic isopods Alitropus typus and Tachaea spongillicola in Tapti, a westward freshwater flowing river of India. The isopods Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840 and Tachaea spongillicola Stebbing, 1907 were identified with the taxonomic keys of Milne Edwards (1840) and Stebbing (1907), respectively. It is the first record of the infestation of parasitic isopods Alitropus typus, and Tachaea spongillicola in the freshwater fishes of river Tapti with new hosts' species Labeo boggut, Oreochromis niloticus, and Systomus sarana.

Keywords: Alitropus typus; Freshwater fishes; Isopod; River Tapti; Tachaea spongillicola.