A bibliography of parasites and diseases of marine and freshwater fishes of India

With the increasing demand for fish as human food, aquaculture both in freshwater and salt water is rapidly developing over the world. In the developing countries, fishes are being raised as food. In many countries fish farming is a very important economic activity. The most recent branch, mariculture, has shown advances in raising fishes in brackish, estuarine and bay waters, in which marine, anadromous and catadromous fishes have successfully been grown and maintained

On the validity of some Indian species of the genus

In the present paper the author has discussed the validity of some Spinitectus species which Sood (1968) synonymised with S. mastacembeli Karve and Naik (1951) without going into the details and without applying the rule of priority. The paper also includes a discussion on the validity of S. komiyai Sahay and Prasad (1965) which Sood (1968) synonymised with S. Pseudotropii Agrawal (1965). A key to the Indian species of the genus Spinitectus has been developed

On

The present paper gives an account of a new genus and species of an Acanthocephala of the family Quadrigyridae Van Cleave, 1920, collected from the intestine of a fresh water fish P. garua (= Clupisoma garua) at Patna. Only one of a large number of fishes examined harboured these worms. Their incidence, therefore, appears to be low. The number of specimens recovered from the host were two males and six females