Abstract:

A new species of an Allocreadid digenean trematode, Allocreadium Allocreadium gachuai nov.nom. is described from a freshwater teleost Channa gachua (Ham.) inhabiting a sub-shivalik freshwater lake Mansar, Jammu,India. No species of Allocreadium Allocreadium has so far been described from the gut of Channa gachua. The new species differs from the only two allocreadid trematode species described so far from murrels in India A.A. handiai, in having a relatively smaller body, larger sized eggs and unipartite seminal vesicle and A.A. kawi in having an oral sucker larger than acetabulum,absence of pre-pharynx and relatively lower eggs per worm. A key to theidentification of species of Allocreadium Allocreadium known from Jammu &Kashmir is given.