A NEW SPECIES OF BRACHYLECITHUM MUNIFIN. SP. (DIGENEA: DICROCOELIIDAE) FROM THE CATTLE EGRET (BUBULCUS IBIS L.) IN SINDH, PAKISTAN

Abstract

The new species is distinguished from all its congeners in having: a typical body shape, absence of prepharynx and pharynx, a short oesophagus, caeca terminating posterior to ovary behind the mid body region, preovarian extra large testes, coiled preacetabular cirruc sac with post-bifurcal genital opening and typically elongated and curved eggs, smallest in size among the species in the genus Brachylecithum