An Investigation on a New Tapeworm Staphylocystis myotisae n. sp, in Bat intestine from Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India.

B.W. Sawarkar

Volume : III, Issue : I, January - 2014

An Investigation on a New Tapeworm Staphylocystis myotisae n. sp, in Bat intestine from Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India.

B. W. Sawarkar

Abstract :

Seven worms were collected from intestine of a Bat, Myotis mystacinus near Aurangabad, Maharashtra , India. The worms are of small size, short, with scolex neck, immature, mature and gravid proglottid. The scolex is large globular in shape and measures 0.234 x 0.221 -0.240 in length and eadth. It is wider than neck region. It bears a rostellum; which is cap shaped oader at the anterior end and tapering at the base and measures 0.141 x 0.035 -0.069 in length and eadth. Rostellum is armed with 28 hooks in a single circle each row with 14 hooks, short in length, bifurcated; the small hooks, measure 0.024 x 0.002 in length and eadth, while handle measures 0.012 x 0.002 - 0.003 in length and eadth. The four suckers are of medium size; slightly overlap on each other, round and oval in shape and measures 0.069 - 0.073 in diameter and 0.053 x 0.050 in length and eadth. The worm is fully described in this paper.