COTUGNIA SINGHI SP. NOV., FROM COLUMBA LIVIA AT JINTUR DIST PARBHANI (M.S.) INDIA

The present communication deals with a new species of the genus Cotugnia, diamare in 1893, collected from intestine, Columba livia at Jintur Dist. Parbhani, M.S. (India). It differ from all the known species of genus with characters, scolex large, Quadrangular, rostellum large, oval, sucker like, hooks two circles, 285 to 305 (298) in number,inner circle 120 to 130 (124) in number, outer circle 165 to 175(168) in number, suckers medium, oval, two pairs, mature segment medium, broader than long, craspedote, testes medium, oval, 65 to70 (68) in number, cirrus thin, coiled, medium, ovary medium, oval, bilobed, round acini, vagina wide, posterior to the cirrus pouch, form receptaculum seminis, recepaculum seminis small, oval, ootype small, rounded, anteroventral to the ovary, genital pore medium, oval, longitudinal excretory canals are narrow, gravid proglottids large, squarish, broader than long, uterus medium, breaks in to uterine capsules.