Pseudoceros prudhoei Newman & Cannon, 1994

Padmanaban, P., Kumar, A. Anand, Kumar, R. Rajendar, Surendar, C. & Vanishree, J., 2020, On the Polyclads from the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve with new records, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (4), pp. 445-453 : 449

5. Pseudoceros prudhoei Newman & Cannon, 1994 ( Figure 8 )

Materials examined: ZSI,/ MBRC /PL-341,1 ex, 17.xii.2017; ZSI/ MBRC /PL-349, 2 ex, Thalayari Is., Keelakarai ,

Distribution: India: Keelakarai (new record to GoM). Elsewhere: Described from Birds Island Bermuda, reported from Curacao Caribbean coast of Colombia Florida Virgin Islands, Jamica, Belize Honduras and Caribbean coast of Panama Brazil Cabo Frio, South eastern Brazil.

Remarks: Although this species was known to have a distribution in western Atlantic, this is recently recorded from Agatii Is., Lakshadweep ( Dixit et al., 2019) and the present report forms its second report from India and first record from the Gulf of Mannar.

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Figure 8. Pseudoceros prudhoei Newman & Cannon, 1994.