Compendium of Biota - The Tree of Life

The Compendium of biota of the Bay of Bengal is classified with the taxonomic system of Cavalier-Smith (1998, 2004). Each table page of the Compendium represents a taxon node in the tree of life. A page includes the single path of nodes to the root of the classification, and a table of child nodes. All taxon nodes are links to their respective pages. Click on lower ranking taxa to extend the table towards the bottom of the tree. The tree bottom contains additional information particular to species, such as authority, references and contributors.

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Item count: 6358
Superkingdomsort descending Kingdom Phylum Class Subclass Family Genus Species Host species Occurrence Authority References Contributors
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Loimoidae Capsala laevis Histiophorus brevirostris, (Playfair,1867) Madras, Tamil Nadu (Verrill, 1875); Johnston, 1929
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Loimoidae Encotyllabe fotedari Upeneus macronemus (Bleeker, 1855) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Loimoidae Encotyllabe lutjani Lutjanus johnii (Bloch, 1792) Madras, Tamil Nadu Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Loimoidae Encotyllabe punctatai Drepane punctata (Linnaeus, 1758) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Loimoidae Loimos secundus Scoliodon sorrakowah, (Bleeker, 1853) Puri, Orissa Chauhan and Bhalerao, 1945
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Loimoidae Neobenedenia vermiculariacola Siganus vermicularis (Valenciennes, 1835) Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Gupta and Khanna, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Loimoidae Neoencotyllabe muelleri Drepane punctata (Linnaeus, 1758) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Heteromazocraes phasae Setipinna phasa (Hamilton, 1822) Chilka Lake, Orissa; Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Indomazocraes jagannath Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Tripathi, 1959
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Kuhnia guttatumai Scomberomorus guttatus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1977
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Kuhnia indica Scomberomorus guttatus(Bloch and Schneider, 1801) Puri, Orissa Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Kuhnia microlepidotusi Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Gupta and Krishna, 1977
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Kuhnia pricei Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1977
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Kuhnia sporstonae Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Price, 1961
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Leptomazocraes orientalis Dussumieria acuta (Valenciennes, 1847); D.hasselti (Day, 1958) Puri, Orissa Chauhan, 1950
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraeoides acutai Dussumieria acuta (Valenciennes, 1847) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraeoides clupeai Clupea ilisha (Hamilton 1822), Clupea longiceps (Valenciennes, 1847); Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraeoides dussumieriai Dussumieria acuta (Valenciennes, 1847) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraeoides indica Pellona indicus (Jerdon, 1849) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraeoides jairajpurii Dussumieria elopsoides (Bleeker, 1851) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Masoodi, 1985
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraeoides multispiralis Dussumieria acute (Bleeker, 1851) Puri, Orissa Agrawal and Sharma, 1989
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraeoides pellonai Pellona branchysoma (Bleeker, 1851) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraeoides puriensis Dussumieria hasseltii (Day, 1958) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraes gussevi Clupeid fish Puri, Orissa Agrawal and Sharma, 1989
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraes namatalosae Nematalosa nasus (Bloch, 1795) Chilka Lake, Puri, Orissa Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Mazocraes sprostonai Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1988
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Neomazocraes anadontostomae Anodontostoma chacunda (Hamilton, 1822) Chilka Lake, Orissa Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Neomazocraes rauschi Dussumieria hasseltii (Bleeker, 1842) D.eloposoides (Bleeker, 1847) Puri, Orissa Gupta and Krishna, 1988
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Paramazocraes axillariai Sciaena axillaris (Day, 1958) Puri, Orissa Krishna, 1975
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Paramazocraes indica Chirocentrus dorab (Forsskal, 1775) Puri, Orissa Krishna, 1975
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Paramazocraes thrissocles Thryssa mystax (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Puri, Orissa; Madras, Tamil Nadu Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Mazocraeidae Pseudoanthocotyle jagannath Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) Puri, Orissa Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Heterapta papual Scomberoides commersonnianus (Lacepède, 1801) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Rohde, 1979
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Megamicrocotyle chirocentrus Chirocentrus dorab (Forsskal) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Tripathi, 1956
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Metamicrocotyla manaarensis Mugil troschelii (Bleeker, 1858) Mandapam, Tamil Nadu Unnithan, 1971
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Microcotyle leiognath Leiognathus ruconius (Hamilton, 1822) Madras, Tamil Nadu Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Microcotyle madrasi Pseudosciaena diacanthus (Lacepede, 1802) Madras, Tamil Nadu Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Microcotyle pamae Pama pama (Hamilton, 1822) Chilka Lake, Orissa Tripathi, 1954
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Microcotyle polynemi Polynemus indicus (Shaw, 1804) Chilka Lake, Orissa Tripathi, 1954
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Tripathia chorinemi Chorinemus tala (Cuvier, 1832) Mahanadi estuary, Orissa Tripathi, 1956
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Tripathia elongata C. lysan (Forsskal, 1775), C.talooparah (Ruppell, 1829), C.sanctipetri (Cuvier, 1829) Madras, Tamil Nadu Radha, 1975
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Microcotylidae Tripathia guptai Chorinemus lysan (Forsskal, 1775) Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu Sharma and Gupta, 1989
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Monocotylidae Monoctyle spirophallus Dasyatis sephen (Forsskal, 1775) Pastinachus sephen (Forsskal, 1775) Puri, Orissa Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Monocotylidae Neoheterocotyle rhynchobatis Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskal, 1775) Puri, Orissa Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Neothoracocotylidae Dawesia indica Scomberomorus guttatus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) Mandapam, Tamil Nadu Unnithan, 1964
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Neothoracocotylidae Pseudothoracocotyle ovale Scomberomorus guttatus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) Puri, Orissa Tripathi, 1956
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Protomicrocotylidae Neomicrocotyle carangis Caranx melampygus (Cuvier, 1833) Madras, Tamil Nadu Radha, 1975
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Protomicrocotylidae Neomicrocotyle indicus Caranx sexfasciatus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825), Caranx hippos (Linnaeus 1766) Mandapam, Tamil Nadu Ramalingam, 1960
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Protomicrocotylidae Protomicrocotyle madrasensis Caranx malabaricus (Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1801) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Ramalingam, 1960
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Protomicrocotylidae Protomicrocotyle mannarensis Caranx malabaricus (Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1801) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Ramalingam, 1960
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Tetraonchidae Tribaculocauda discoidea Hemirhamphus georgii (Valenciennes, 1847) Port Canning, West Bengal Tripathi, 1957
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Monogenea Polyonchoinea Tetraonchidae Tylosuricola panikkari Tylosurus leiurus (Bleeker, 1850) Mandapam, Tamil Nadu Unnithan, 1964
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bivesicula australis n/a Marine fish Andamans Crowcroft, 1947
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Paucivitellosus hanumanthai Mugil cephhalus Visakhapatnam Mani, 1989
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus caballeroi Chirocentrus dorab Digha coast Gupta & Sharma, 1972
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus dorabi Chirocentrus dorab Puri Gupta & Ahmad, 1981
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus equulai Equula daura Puri Gupta & Srivastava, 1989
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus guptai Gupta & Puri, 1980 Chirocentrus dorab Puri Gupta & Puri, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus inglisi Carangoides malabaricus Puri Gupta & Gupta, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus liodorus Chirocentrus dorab Bay of Bengal Lu¨he, 1906
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus lucknowensis Gerres punctatus Puri Gupta & Puri, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus luhei Chirocentrus dorab Bay of Bengal Srivastava, 1939
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus lutjanusi Lutjanus marginatus Puri Gupta & Gupta, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus microtesticulatus Chirocentrus dorab Puri Lokhande, 1990
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus puriensis Alepes djedaba Gupta & Puri, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Acanthocolpus thapari Gupta & Ahmad, 1981
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Monostephanostomum mesospinosum Carangoides malabaricus Visakhapatnam< Kalingapatnam Madhavi, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Pleorchis indicus Epinephelus diacanthus Puri Gupta & Puri, 1979
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Pleorchis puriensis Sciaena volgeri Puri Gupta & Ahmad, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Pleorchis sciaenae Pseudorhombus diacanthus, Sciaena spp Visakhapatnam Yamaguti, 1938
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Pleorchis srivastavai Psettodes erumei Digha coast Saxena, Johri & Gupta, 2010
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Pseudolepidapedon indica Upeneus macronemus Puri Gupta & Ahmad, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomoides dorabi Chirocentrus dorab Puri Mamaev & Oshmarin, 1966
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomoides sharmai Chirocentrus dorab Puri Gupta & Gupta, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomoides tenuis Chirocentrus dorab Bay of Bengal Manter, 1963
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum adinterruptum Fistularia petimba Visakhapatnam Hafeezullah, 1971
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum attenuatum Scomberoides tala MS Hafeezullah, 1971
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum bhuneswari Upeneus macronemus Puri Gupta & Puri, 1985
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum casum Lutjanus malabaricus, L. fulviflamma Visakhapatnam Linton, 1910
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum chauhani Lutjanus rivulatus Gupta & Ahmad, 1979
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum cloacum Rachycentron canadum Kakinada, Puri, Chilka Srivastava, 1938
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum ditrematis Megalaspis cordyla Visakhapatnam Yamaguti, 1939
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum equulai Equula daura Puri Gupta & Puri, 1985
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum gazzai Gazza minuta Puri Gupta & Puri, 1985
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum lucknowense Pseudotriacanthus strigilifer Puri Gupta & Jahan, 1975
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum madhaviae Caranx sexfasciatus, Carangoides malabaricus, C. chrysophrys Visakhapatnam Bray & Cribb, 2003
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum polynemi Polynemus indicus Visakhapatnam Madhavi, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum pseudoditrematis Rachycentron canadum Visakhapatnam Madhavi, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum S. microsomum Rachycentron canadum Visakhapatnam Madhavi, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum simhai Rhabdosargus sarba Puri Gupta & Ahmad, 1979
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum srivastavai Pampus argenteus Puri Gupta & Gupta, 1980
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Stephanostomum triacanthi Triacanthus brevirostris Visakhapatnam, Digha coast Madhavi, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Tormopsolus filiformis Rachycentron canadum Visakhapatnam Sogandares-Bernal & Hutton, 1959
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Acanthocolpidae Tormopsolus spatulum Rachycentron canadum Kakinada Bilqees, 1972
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Accacoelidae Tetrochetus coryphaenae Coryphaena hippurus, Diodon hystrix Yamaguti, 1934
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Apocreadiidae Neoapocreadium karwarensis Valamugil cunnesius Visakhapatnam Hafeezullah, 1970
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Aporocotylidae Haploporus indicus Valamugil cunnesius Visakhapatnam Rekharani & Madhavi, 1985
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Aporocotylidae Orchispirium heterovitellatum Himantura imbricata Visakhapatnam Madhavi & Rao, 1970
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Aporocotylidae Paradeontacylix megalaspium Megalaspis cordyla Visakhapatnam Triveni Lakshmi & Madhavi, 2007
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Aporocotylidae Transversotrema patialense Mugil cephalus , Liza macrolepis Visakhapatnam Soparkar, 1924

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