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Paraturbanella mesoptera Rao 1970
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Description
Paraturbanella mesoptera Rao, 1970
Records from India. ANDHRA PRADESH: Visakhapatnam (Waltair)—Rao (1970); ODISHA (Orissa): Bahuda estuary—Rao (1989); WEST BENGAL: Medinipur,— Sanyal et al. (2012); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).
Habitat. Marine, intertidal; medium sand with fine shell gravel and little detritus, between low and half tide levels.
Distribution. India (Bay of Bengal).
Remarks. A redescription of the male apparatus of this species is advisable because in the current descriptions information regarding lay out of the sperm ducts and the position of the male pore is missing.
Notes
Published as part of Chatterjee, Tapas, Priyalakshmi, Geetha & Todaro, M. Antonio, 2019, An annotated checklist of the macrodasyidan Gastrotricha from India, pp. 495-510 in Zootaxa 4545 (4) on page 506, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2618301
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rao
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Gastrotricha
- Order
- Macrodasyida
- Family
- Turbanellidae
- Genus
- Paraturbanella
- Species
- mesoptera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paraturbanella mesoptera Rao, 1970 sec. Chatterjee, Priyalakshmi & Todaro, 2019
References
- Sanyal, A. K., Alfred, J. R. A., Venkatraman, K., Tiwari, S. K. & Mitra, S. (2012) Status of Biodiversity of West Bengal. Published by Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1 - 969.
- Naidu, K. V. & Rao, G. C. (2004) Gastrotricha. In: Fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 169.