Free-living marine nematodes in Andhra Pradesh Coast, India
Author
Sivaleela, Gunasekaran
Author
Surendar, Chandra
Author
Kumar, Rubavath Rajendar
text
Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2021
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journal article
10.26515/rzsi/v121/i2/2021/151251
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12.
Dichromadora cuculata
Lorenzen, 1973
1973.
Dichromadora cuculata
Lorenzen.
Inst. Meeresforsch. Breemerh
.
14
: 127 - 130.
1988.
Dichromadora cuculata
Platt and Warwick.
Synopses
of the British Fauna
No.38. P.160, Figure 69.
Material examined
:
4 ♂
, (Reg. No. N. 244) Yanam,
22.vi.2014
, Coll. G. Sivaleela.
Diagnostic characters
: This species represented by the lateral differentiation of the cuticle in the form of two longitudinal files of enlarged dots.
Distribution
: S.P.Pattinam,(
Sivaleela, 2016
); Manginapudi -
Andhra Pradesh
(
Sivaleela, 2016
).
Elsewhere
: Firth of Clyde, West Scotland.
Remarks
: This specimen agrees well with the earlier description of
Warwick
et al.
, 1998
by its cuticle, Amphid oval. Cephalic setae numbers four 3µm. The spicule size 17 µm and differ in cephalic setae numbers are also treated for distinguishing this species from other species of
Dichromadora
.