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A Study on the Coccidia of Indian Birds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2018

Mukundamurari Chakravarty ,
Amiya Bhuson Kar  and
A. W. Greenwood
Mukundamurari Chakravarty
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, India
Amiya Bhuson Kar*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, India
*
*Now in the Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh
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The present paper is the third of a series of studies on the coccidia of Indian birds, and contains the description of six new species of these parasites, four of which belong to the genus Isospora, and one each to the genera Dorisiella and Eimeria, All the parasites described here belong to the Order Coccidiida, Family Eimeriidae. New avian hosts for some already known species are recorded here. The life-history of Eimeria barbeta Kar (1944) is described in detail. We also add here an amended description of Isospora ginginiana Chakravarty and Kar (1944 b), and a new variety of the latter.

The majority of the birds were purchased from local dealers, while some were collected from Gaya, Bihar. Of twenty-eight different species of birds examined, eighteen were parasitized. The table at the end of this paper will indicate the number of birds parasitized (21) out of the total number examined (48), together with the locality of the hosts. Some of the birds were also infected with other protozoan parasites (haemosporidians and flagellates), descriptions of which are being published elsewhere.

The methods adopted here are the same as previously employed by the authors (Chakravarty and Kar, 1944 a and b).

Two species of birds, viz. the large Indian paroquet Psittacula eupatria nipalensis (Hodgs.) and the red-whiskered or Chinese bulbul Elathea jocosa emeria (Linn.), harboured a new Isospora, which does not resemble any known species of this genus. It is therefore proposed to call it Isospora psittaculae n. sp. after one of its hosts.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , January 1945 , pp. 225 - 233
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1945

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