An annotated checklist of the chaetonotidan Gastrotricha from India
Author
Chatterjee, Tapas
Near Hari Mandir Road, Hirapur, Dhanbad 826001, Jharkhand, India.
Author
Todaro, M. Antonio
0000-0002-6353-7281
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, via G. Campi 213 / D, I- 41125 Modena, Italy. antonio. todaro @ unimore. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6353 - 7281
antonio.todaro@unimore.it
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-01
5027
3
332
350
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5027.3.2
1175-5326
5449646
FC464127-CED8-4F28-8A50-F8A0BCD08D49
Chaetonotus
(
Marinochaetus
)
apolemmus
Hummon, Balsamo & Todaro, 1992
Records from
India
.
KERALA
: Cherai, Veli—
Priyalakshmi & Menon (2012)
Habitat (as in Indian records).
Marine, intertidal; well sorted medium sand,
10 cm
below surface.
Distribution.
Mediterranean Sea, Canary Islands and
India
. According to Hummon (2010) the species is also present in
Ecuador
and Hawaii.
Remarks.
In
India
, the species has been found only once (
Priyalakshmi & Menon 2012
); a tentative identification was carried out by one of us (MAT) based on formalin-fixed specimens; future identification on living specimens would be advisable to better support the previous identification.