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Neosprostonia, a new name for Sprostonia Jain, 1959

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

S. L. Jain
S. L. Jain
Affiliation:
Indian Statistical InstituteCalcutta 35
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In a recent issue of Parasitology, I have described (Jain, 1959) a new genus of freshwater Tetraonchinae, Sprostonia, from the gill filaments of some Indian fishes. In a personal communication Dr Nora G. Sproston has kindly pointed out to me that the same name has been used by Bychowsky in his monograph on Monogenea (1957), published by the Institute of the Zoological Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., for Sprostonia squatinae (MacCallum, 1921) which he makes genotype and removes it from Trochopodinae to a new subfamily Megalocotylinae in Capsalidae. I therefore change the name of the genus which I have described to Neosprostonia, Sprostonia being preoccupied.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 49 , Issue 3-4 , November 1959 , pp. 477
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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