Prochromadorella ditlevseni de Man, 1922

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 : 289

14. Prochromadorella ditlevseni de Man, 1922 *

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1922. Prochromadorella ditlevseni de Man De Boer Jr : 214-261.

1988. Prochromadorella ditlevseni . Platt and Warwick. Free-living marine nematodes: Part. II. British Chromadorida . Synopses of the British Fauna No.38. P.131, Figure 53.

Material examined: 3♂,(Reg.No.N.223),Krishnapatinam,

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

Diagnostic characters: This species is characterized by the presence of three solid teeth, heterogeneous cuticle without longitudinal rows of punctations, sometimes with the lateral dots enlarged.

Description: Body length 0.9mm. Maximum diameter of body is 22 µm. Cuticle marked with transverse rows of fine dots on both margins of the body.Four cephalic setae 5 µm. Buccal cavity with three solid teeth. Amphids 4 µm wide. Tail 5 a.b.d in length and Conico-cylindrical. Spicules measures 24µm and curved. Gubernaculum 16 µm.

Distribution: Pichavaram mangroves (Chinnadurai, 2007). Elsewhere: Exe estuary, South -West England, West Scotland, and East Scotland.

Remarks: The specimen is examined well with the earlier description of Warwick et al., 1998 by its cuticle without longitudinal rows of punctations. But the features of cephalic setae, amphid size and position from the anterior end and the striations of the tail are demarcating features from other species to identify. Hence, they are referred to as P. ditlevseni .