A new species of the genus Pallisentis from a fresh-water eel

Morphological and molecular description of Pallisentis roparensis n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Quadrigyridae) infecting the freshwater cat fish Wallago attu from Ropar Wetland, Punjab, India

“…Proboscis hooks in first circle 100 long; hooks roots stubby knobs; lemnisci unequal; testes pre-equatorial, 950 (anterior) and 700 (posterior) long; cement gland 900 long; Saefftigen's pouch 770 long; female gonopore sub-terminal———————————————————————————— Pallisentis ( D. ) basiri Farooqi (1958) . Trunk spines conical ————————————————————————————————————6 …”

“…The species like P. channai Gupta et al, 2015 , Gupta et al, 2015 , P. vinodai Gupta et al (2015) and P. anandai Gautam et al (2017) were erected with incomplete morphological and molecular characterization and therefore are more likely to be questioned. Some of the already established Indian species including P. basiri Farooqi (1958) , P. guntei Sahay et al (1967) , P. clupei Gupta and Gupta (1980) , P. cavasii , Gupta and Verma (1980) , P. fasciati Gupta and Verma (1980) , P. guptai Gupta and Fatma (1986) , P. mehrai Gupta and Fatma (1986) and P. jagani Koul et al (1991) are sufficiently described morphologically however there is much need to supplement them with molecular data for the cladistic positioning of these species in the phylogenetic tree. So far, molecular data of very few species is available in the database in comparison to the larger number of described species with incomplete and confusing morphological details.…”

Helminth parasite spectrum of fishes in Meghalaya, Northeast India: a checklist

“…Van Cleave (1928) erected the genus Pallisentis with P. umbellatus as the type species recovered from Ophiocephalus argus, Siniperca sp., Cobitis decemcirrosus and Parasiturus arotus. Several species of the genus were subsequently described from India; these include P. ophiocephali (Thapar, 1930) Baylis, 1933 in Channa marulius from Chittagong, Dhaka; P. nagpurensis Bhalerao 1931 in Ophiocephalus striatus from Maharashtra; P. nandai Sarkar, 1953 in Nandus nandus from Bengal; P. colisai Sarkar, 1956 in Colisa fasciatus from Delhi; P. allahabadii Agarwal, 1958a, b in Ophiocephalus punctatus from Uttar Pradesh; P. basiri Farooqi, 1958 in Rhynchobdella aculeata from Uttar Pradesh; P. pandei Rai, 1967 in O. punctatus from Uttar Pradesh; P. gunteai Sahay, Nath and Sinha, 1967 in Lepidocephalichthys guntea from Bi-har; P. fasciati, P. gomtii and P. cavasii Gupta and Verma, 1980 in Trichogaster fasciatus, N. nandus and Mystus cavasius from Lucknow; and P. jagani Koul, Raina, Bambroo and Koul, 1991 in Channa channa from Jammu. The present report provides a new host/locality record.…”