Abstract:
The present communication deals with the intestinal histopathology of freshwater predatory fish, Clarias batrachus (Linneaus) caused due to the infection of Caryophylliaeid cestode, Lytocestus clariasae Jadhav and Gahvane, 1991 collected from Aurangabad M.S. India. The parasite has deeply penetrative type of scolex, which causes the heavy mechanical injury to the intestinal tissue. The epithelial compression, inflammation was highly observed. The scolex of parasites crosses majority of the intestinal layers (Internal epithelium, submucosa, muscularis layer) and come to lie near serosa suggesting that, it is very dangerous and destructive parasites to the host