Published January 21, 2019
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Macrodasys hexadactylis Rao 1970
Description
Macrodasys hexadactylis Rao, 1970
Records from India. ANDHRA PRADESH: Pudimadaka, Visakhapatnam (Waltair)—Rao (1970); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).
Habitat (as in Indian records). Marine, intertidal; medium sand, 30–40 cm below surface, between low and half tide level.
Distribution. India (Bay of Bengal); Japan (Kasado island as M. cf hexadactylis); USA (Florida, Hummon 2010).
Remarks. Nomenclature and functional role of the accessory reproductive organs as indicated in the original description should be revised in light of the recent literature (e.g., Kieneke & Schmidt-Rhaesa 2015).
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 498, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2618301
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrodasyidae
- Genus
- Macrodasys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Macrodasyida
- Phylum
- Gastrotricha
- Scientific name authorship
- Rao
- Species
- hexadactylis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macrodasys hexadactylis Rao, 1970 sec. Chatterjee, Priyalakshmi & Todaro, 2019
References
- 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)