Desmodorella schulzi (Gerlach, 1950)

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 : 292

20. Desmodorella schulzi (Gerlach, 1950) *

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1950. Desmodorella schulzi Gerlach , journals of Sea research., 25: 181-188.

Material examined: 8♂, (Reg. No.N. 240), Ramathirtham,

30.vii.2014, Coll. G. Sivaleela.

Diagnostic characters: This species un-striated head, thickened cuticle, amphids on cephalic capsule, tubular precloacal supplements

Description: Body length is 1.3 mm. Cuticle with coarse striation and longitudinal files of fine setae. Four 5 µm cephalic setae with anterior of amphids. Eight pairs of subcephalic setae is present posterior to amphids. Amphids are loop-shaped. Tail is 3.5 a.b.d in length and conical. Spicules are 68 µm in length and arcuate.

Distribution: Continental shelf of southwestern Bay of Bengal ( Ansari et al., 2012); Vellar estuary (Ansari et al., 2014); Chilka lagoon (Ansari et al., 2015); Sundarban mangroves ( Ansari & Bhadury, 2017). Elsewhere: Exe estuary, Southwest England, Isles of Scilly.

Remarks: This species examined well with the earlier description of ( Platt & Warwick, 1983) by its cuticle with fine striation, amphids structure and position, un-striated tail and supplementary organs.