Prevalence and morphological details of Nyctotherus periplanetae in the host Periplaneta americana, collected from Nashik District of Maharashtra

Abstract

Nyctotherus periplanetae is very common intestine dwelling ciliate in invertebrates. During the period of two years total number of 1842 intestinal samples of Periplaneta americana were checked. The percentage of prevalence of ciliates was found quite high and it was 57.77% during the year 2007 and 60.75% in 2008.