Anu Prasanna Vankara

Lernaeid Copepod Parasitic on the Freshwater Fishes of Godavari River, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India with Description of a New Species, Lernaea notopteri n.sp. from Notopterus notopterus

Anu Prasanna Vankara, Mani Gudivada & Vijayalakshmi Chikkam · Journal of Applied Life Sciences International · 2016

Lernaeid copepods are one of the most detrimental and ubiquitous ectoparasites of cultured and wild variety freshwater fishes. River Godavari offers a dynamic habitat to a wide variety of fishes which are in turn infected by endo and ectoparasites. In a copepod parasitic survey o...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JALSI/2016/30123

Metazoan Ectoparasites of Edible Freshwater Fishes of Vizianagaram District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Mani Gudivada, Anu Prasanna Vankara & Vijayalakshmi Chikkam · Journal of Applied Life Sciences International · 2016

Ectoparasites like copepods and monogeneans of fishes cause serious damage in the aquaculture industry. Five species of freshwater fishes collected from different freshwater bodies of Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh were analysed for ectoparasitic infection. This communic...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JALSI/2017/30360

Population Dynamics of Metazoan Parasites of Rhizoprionodon acutus from the Nellore Coast off Bay of Bengal

C. Srinivasa Kalyan, M. Hemalatha & Anu Prasanna Vankara · Annual Research & Review in Biology · 2018

Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell) 1837, commonly known as ‘Milk shark’ is the frequently available elasmobranch from the Nellore (14.43°N 79.97°E.) coast off Bay of Bengal. A total of 152 R. acutus were collected from this coast during January, 2014- December, 2015, of which 89 hos...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ARRB/2018/44374