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This book Fauna of India: Acanthocephala by the present author is an attempt to put together all the information available in literature of Acanthocephala. Out of 1250 species known from all over the world, this work deals with 348 species of these parasites occurring in the Indian subcontinent. These 348 species belonging to 65 genera, 18 families, 8 orders, 3 classes of which description and figures are provided for 339 species. The present volume will ...
Aquatic Oligochaetes are very common micro-invertebrates in small, medium and large fresh water bodies and running waters of streams and rivers living in algae, aquatic vegetation, floating rotting material and in bottom mud. Dr. Stephenson published several papers on the aquatic and terrestrial Oligochaetes of India and published the Fauna of British India volume on Oligochaetes in 1923. Later Dr. Padmmabha Aiyer published some papers on aquatic Oligochaetes ...