Unicauda andhrae n.sp. (Myxosporidia) in the mucus on the gills ofOphicephalus gachua

Synopsis of tailed Myxobolidae (Cnidaria, Myxozoa, Myxosporea) infecting Indian fishes

“…A number of authors (Chakravarty 1939, Ganapati 1941, Tripathi 1952, Qadri 1962, 1965, Bhatt and Siddiqui 1964, Lalitha Kumari 1965, 1969, Chaudhuri and Chakravarty 1970, Narasimhamurti and Kalavati 1975, Kalavati and Narasimhamurti 1981, 1984, Seenappa et al 1981, Bajpai and Haldar 1982a,b, Haldar et al 1983, 1997, Haldar and Mukherjee 1985, Sarkar 1985, Menon 1986, Gupta and Khera 1987, Wu et al 1988, Kalavati et al 1992, Susha and Janardhan 1995, Acharya et al 2004, Gupta and Kaur 2018, Nissa and Kaur 2021 described numerous new species of tailed Myxobolidae from freshwater and marine fishes of West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Hemanand et al (2008), and Kaur and Attri (2015) recently described one species from the freshwater fish of Manipur and Punjab, respectively.…”