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New host and new geographical record of the ciliate parasites of ornamental fish, Botia rostrata from Arunachal Pradesh for the first time in India

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Ornamental fish culture is growing to a prosperly in India. India earned lot amount of money from this business but unfortunately the ornamental fishes are facing lots of problem due to the parasitic infestation. While surveying, some ciliate parasites namely, Trichodina oligocotti (Lom in Arch Protistenkd 112:153–177, 1970) and Tripertiella bulbosa (Davis in US Dept Interior Fish Bull 51:1–29, 1947) Lom (Acta Parasitol Polon 7:573–590, 1959) have been identified from ornamental fish Botia rostrata from Arunachal Pradesh, India. The species have been identified according to the guidelines of Lom (J Protozool 5:251–263, 1958). Through out the world records of many trichodinid infection was documented but no such investigation have been carried out earlier in Arunachal Pradesh. The present study embodies the morphology and morphometrics of trichodinid ciliates of ornamental fish, Botia rostata collected from the Subansiri river of Arunachal Pradesh for the first time in India.

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One of the author (SC) is thankful to Department of Biotechnology (Government of India) sponsored Major Research Project (BT/PR/16506/NER/95/210/2015) for carrying out the work.

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    Sukanya Chanda, Gyan Deb Barman & Probir Kumar Bandyopadhyay

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All authors had participated in the study design. Sample collection and total work has been done by first author and manuscript writing was done by second author. Corresponding author participated planning and supervision of the work. All authors had critically read and approved of the final manuscript.

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Chanda, S., Barman, G.D. & Bandyopadhyay, P.K. New host and new geographical record of the ciliate parasites of ornamental fish, Botia rostrata from Arunachal Pradesh for the first time in India. J Parasit Dis 44, 194–200 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-019-01182-8

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