Viscosia abyssorum Allgen, 1933

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 : 286

6. Viscosia abyssorum Allgen, 1933 *

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1933. Viscosia abyssorum Allgen. Nemys -Generic Taxonomic database system on nematodes available online at neMys. Ugent.be

Material examined: 2 ♂, (Reg. No. N. 263), Chirala, 24. vi.2014, Coll. G. Sivaleela.

Diagnostic characters: The species being separated on the length of the cephalic setae or papillae, the size of amphid, the form of the dorsal and left sub ventral teeth in the buccal cavity, the length of tail and male copulatory apparatus.

Description: Body length is 1.8 mm. Maximum diameter is 50 µm. Labial papillae minute. Six longer cephalic 4 µm, four shorter setae. Right sub ventral tooth large and pointed. Amphids 10 µm wide. Tail is short 3 a.b.d with swollen and rounded tip. Spicules straight 26 µm in length.

Distribution: Continental shelf of South-Western Bay of Bengal ( Ansari et al., 2012); Chilka lagoon (Ansari et al., 2015); Intertidal regions of Central West Coast of India ( Bhadury et al., 2015); Sundarban mangroves ( Ansari & Bhadury, 2017). Elsewhere: England: Skippersisland, Essex, Northumberland.

Remarks: This species resembles with the description of Platt & Warwick (1983) by its body and tail length.