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Mesodasys hexapodus Rao & Ganapati 1968
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Mesodasys hexapodus Rao & Ganapati, 1968
Records from India. ANDHRA PRADESH: Visakhapatnam (Waltair)— Rao & Ganapati (1968a); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).
Habitat. Marine; coarse sand at a depth of 20–30 cm between low and mid-water levels.
Distribution. So far the species appears to be endemic to India.
Remarks. Naidu & Rao (2004) indicated the species to be present also in North America (Florida); however, we could not find any original reference in this regard. Very likely the record of Macrodasys hexadactylis in Florida (see Hummon 2010) may have generated the confusion. Consequently M. hexapodus should be considered endemic to India.
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 496, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2618301
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rao & Ganapati
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Gastrotricha
- Order
- Macrodasyida
- Family
- Cephalodasyidae
- Genus
- Mesodasys
- Species
- hexapodus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesodasys hexapodus Rao, 1968 sec. Chatterjee, Priyalakshmi & Todaro, 2019
References
- Rao, G. C. & Ganapati, P. N. (1968 a) Some new interstitial gastrotrichs from beach sand of Waltair coast. Proceeding of Indian Academy of Sciences, 67 b, 35 - 53.
- 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)