NEW RECORD OF GENUS Tylodelphys DIESING, 1850 (DIGENEA: DIPLOSTOMIDAE) IN Phalacrocorax niger FROM PAKISTAN
MUHAMMAD MOOSA ABRO *
Postgraduate Center, Government College Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan.
ALI MURTAZA DHAREJO
Department of Zoology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
MUHAMMAD MUNIF KHAN
Department of Zoology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
NADIR ALI BIRMANI
Department of Zoology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
FIDA AHMED
Department of Zoology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
A total of 11 Little Cormorants, Phalacrocorax niger, were examined in Sanghar District of Sindh province of Pakistan in October 2014 – December 2015. In the intestine of three hosts twenty trematodes of the genus Tylodelphys Diesing, 1850 were recorded. The description of the present specimens points out several different features from already known species of this genus. Therefore, these are described at the genus level. The Little Cormorant, Phalacrocorax niger is a new host record of the genus Tylodelphys Diesing, 1850. And Tylodelphys is reported for the first time from Pakistan.
Keywords: Avian trematode, Tylodelphys, Little Cormorant, Phalacrocorax niger, Sindh, Pakistan