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 text 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.