Tetranchyroderma suecicum Boaden, 1960

Chatterjee, Tapas, Priyalakshmi, Geetha & Todaro, M. Antonio, 2019, An annotated checklist of the macrodasyidan Gastrotricha from India, Zootaxa 4545 (4), pp. 495-510 : 504

Tetranchyroderma suecicum Boaden, 1960

Records from India. ODISHA: Konark—Rao (1969); KERALA: Fort Kochi (Cochin), Azhikode beach, Karunagapally—Govindankutty & Nair (1969), Nair & Govindankutty (1972); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).

Habitat (as in Indian records). Marine, intertidal; medium to fine sand near mid-tide level.

Distribution. Originally described from the western coast of Sweden (Gulmarsfjord), the species has been subsequently recorded form several areas and localities of North Europe, British islands and India. The presence of the species in North America (Alabama, Delaware and Virginia) reported by Naidu & Rao (2004) is not circumstantiated.

Remarks. Luporini et al. (1973) changed the species name ending from T. suecica to T. suecicum according to the genus gender. The description of the Indian specimens is somewhat discordant with the original description and calls for a better comparison with the North European populations, hopefully based also on molecular data.