Daptonema procerum Gerlach, 1951

Sivaleela, Gunasekaran, Surendar, Chandra & Kumar, Rubavath Rajendar, 2021, Free-living marine nematodes in Andhra Pradesh Coast, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (2), pp. 283-301 : 297

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i2/2021/151251

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scientific name

Daptonema procerum Gerlach, 1951
status

 

34. Daptonema procerum Gerlach, 1951 View in CoL

1951. Daptonema procerum Gerlach Zool. Jb. (Syst), 80: 379-406.

Material examined: 4♂, (Reg. No. N. 261), Chirala,

24.vi.2014, Coll. G. Sivaleela.

Diagnostic characters: This species characterized by the presence of conico-cylindrical with terminal setae. The size is smaller than other species of Daptonema .

Distribution: Continental shelf of Andhra ( Bhanu et al., 2017); Continental shelf of Southwestern Bay of Bengal ( Ansari et al., 2012); intertidal regions of Central West Coast of India ( Bhadury et al., 2015). Elsewhere: Exe, Tamar and Fal estuaries, Southwest England.

Remarks: The species is resembled well the earlier description of Warwick et al. (1998) by its short terminal setae and cephalic setae length. Cuticle was transversely striated.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematoda

Class

Chromadorea

Order

Monhysterida

Family

Xyalidae

Genus

Daptonema

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