Infection and Prevalence of Senga lucknowensis (Johri, 1956) in freshwater fish Channa punctata (Bloch, 1793) of DVC, a reservoir of Koderma, Jharkhand, India

ABSTRACT This study has been conducted to know the prevalence of fish helminthic endoparasites of freshwater fish hosts. The samples were collected at a regular interval of one week from May 2020 to April 2021 from Tilaiya Dam, a reservoir of Koderma, Jharkhand. Approximately 1800 fish were collected of which 360 species of Channa punctatus, 240 species of N. notopterus, 240 species of L. rohita, 240 species of C. catla, 240 species of O. niloticus, 240 species of C. mrigala, 240 species of P. sanitwongsei. The present study has been conducted on seven commercial fishes among which only C. punctata was infected. Among these 1800 fish samples, 1600 were non-infected and 200 were infected. The prevalence of Senga lucknowensis was recorded in 200 fish species of C. punctatus and no helminthic endoparasites S. lucknowensis has in other 1600 species of fish. 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