Table 3.

Seasonal differences in mean abundance of helminths of snakeheaded fishes in U. P. India.

Host	Parasites	Total	Autumn	Winter	Summer	Rainy
C. punctatus	Acanthocephala
	Pallisentis sp.	0.96	0.72	0.66	0.89	0.85
	Trematode
	Allocredium sp.	0.54	0.40	0.33	0.72	0.58
	Genarchopsis sp.	0.50	0.46	0.40	0.55	0.60
	Nematode
	Procamallanus sp.	0.54	0.53	0.42	0.58	0.54
	Cestode
	Senga sp.	0.46	0.62	0.44	0.45	0.33
C. striatus	Acanthocephala
	Pallisentis sp.	0.82	0.75	0.66	0.85	0.85
	Trematode
	Allocredium sp.	0.46	0.31	0.40	0.66	0.80
	Genarchopsis sp.	0.65	0.88	0.33	0.60	0.66
	Nematode
	Neocamallanus sp.	0.30	0.23	0.22	0.50	0.33
	Cestode
	Senga sp.	0.33	0.35	0.40	0.42	0.18