Paracanthonchus heterodontus Schulze, 1932

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 : 289

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

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Paracanthonchus heterodontus Schulze, 1932
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1932. Paracanthonchus heterodontus Schulze. Zool. jahrb. jena. (syst), 62: 331-430, Figure 51.

1988. Paracanthonchus heterodontus Platt and Warwick. Free-living marine nematodes: Part. II. British Chromadorida . Synopses of the British Fauna No.38. P.257, Figure 115.

Material examined: 4♂, (Reg. No. N. 275), Endy beach,

30.vii.2014, Coll. G. Sivaleela.

Diagnostic characters: Paracanthonchus has cuticle with transverse rows of fine dots. Gubernaculum distally expanded and dentate. The position of precloacal supplements.

Distribution: Pudukudi (Palk Bay) Tamil Nadu ( Sivaleela, 2016). Elsewhere: Strangford Lough, North-East Ireland.

Remarks: The species resembled with description of the Platt & Warwick (1983) by its lateral differentiation of cuticle and the position of precloacal supplements. So, they are considered as P. heterodontus .

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