Theristus longus Platt, 1973

Sivaleela, Gunasekaran, Surendar, Chandra & Kumar, Rubavath Rajendar, 2021, Free-living marine nematodes in Andhra Pradesh Coast, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (2), pp. 283-301 : 299

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i2/2021/151251

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scientific name

Theristus longus Platt, 1973
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41. Theristus longus Platt, 1973 View in CoL

1973. Theristus longus Platt. Cahiers de biologie Marine., 14 (3): 295-321.

Material examined: 3♂, (Reg. No. N.270), Coringa,

3.iv.2016, Coll. G. Sivaleela.

Diagnostic characters: This species differs by the tail conical without terminal setae.

Distribution: Tammenapatanam, Andhra ( Ansari et al., 2013) Continental shelf of southwestern Bay of Bengal ( Ansari et al., 2012); Sundarban mangroves ( Ansari and Bhadury, 2017); www.biosearch.in. Elsewhere: Strangford Lough, North-East Ireland.

Remarks: The species examined well with the earlier description of Platt (1998) by its long tail length, body length and amphid size. This species was recorded by Ansari et al at Tammenapatanam.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematoda

Class

Chromadorea

Order

Monhysterida

Family

Xyalidae

Genus

Theristus

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