Xenotrichula tentaculata Rao & Ganapati, 1968

Chatterjee, Tapas & Todaro, M. Antonio, 2021, An annotated checklist of the chaetonotidan Gastrotricha from India, Zootaxa 5027 (3), pp. 332-350 : 345-346

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5027.3.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492848

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DE119158-5718-FFA5-55B8-F8AEFDFDDD04

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scientific name

Xenotrichula tentaculata Rao & Ganapati, 1968
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Xenotrichula tentaculata Rao & Ganapati, 1968 View in CoL

Records from India. ANDHRA PRADESH: Visakhapatnam (Waltair) – Rao & Ganapati (1968); ODISHA: Puri, Konarak, Bahuda estuary— Rao (1969, 1989); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).

Habitat (as in Indian records). Marine, intertidal; coarse and medium sands near half tide level.

Distribution. India (Bay of Bengal).

Remarks. Morphometric data for this species have been provided only once; the description appears rather scanty but sufficient to identify the species.

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