Macrodasys indicus Govindankutty & Nair 1969
Description
Macrodasys indicus Govindankutty & Nair, 1969
Records from India. KERALA: Azhikode, Fort Kochi (Cochin)— Govindankutty & Nair (1969, 1972), Nair & Govindankutty (1972); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).
Habitat. Intertidal, marine; medium sand near mid-tide level.
Remarks. Hummon & Todaro (2010) commented—“The proper name is M. indicus, as in the text, and not M. idicus, as occurs in Fig. 7; this is as determined by the first reviser, Hummon, 2008b:127 (ICZN 24.2.2)”. We agree with Hummon & Todaro (2010) to consider this taxon to be species inquirenda as the available morphological information is insufficient for a reliable identification of the Indian specimens. Indeed as it is sketched the specimens look more like a Mesodasys than a Macrodasys.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrodasyidae
- Genus
- Macrodasys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Macrodasyida
- Phylum
- Gastrotricha
- Scientific name authorship
- Govindankutty & Nair
- Species
- indicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macrodasys indicus Govindankutty, 1969 sec. Chatterjee, Priyalakshmi & Todaro, 2019
References
- Govindankutty, A. G. & Nair, N. B. (1969) The marine Gastrotricha from the interstitial fauna of the south west coast of India. Bulletin of National Institute of Sciences of India, 38, 623 - 640.
- Govindankutty, A. G. & Nair, N. B. (1972) Observations on the breeding periods of certain interstitial nematodes, gastrotrichs and copepods of the south west coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 14, 1 - 5.
- Naidu, K. V. & Rao, G. C. (2004) Gastrotricha. In: Fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 169.
- Hummon, W. D. (2010) Global Distribution of Marine Gastrotricha. Available from: http: // www. gastrotricha. unimore. it / checklist. htm (accessed 15 October 2018)
- Hummon, W. D. (2008) Gastrotricha of the North Atlantic Ocean: 1. Twenty-four new and two redescribed species of Macrodasyida. Meiofauna Marina, 16, 117 - 174.