Dactylopodola indica (Rao & Ganapati, 1968)

Chatterjee, Tapas, Priyalakshmi, Geetha & Todaro, M. Antonio, 2019, An annotated checklist of the macrodasyidan Gastrotricha from India, Zootaxa 4545 (4), pp. 495-510 : 497-498

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.3

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Dactylopodola indica (Rao & Ganapati, 1968)
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Dactylopodola indica (Rao & Ganapati, 1968) View in CoL

= Dactylopodalia indica Rao & Ganapati, 1968

Records from India. ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS—Rao (1975, 1980b); ANDHRA PRADESH: Palm beach, Visakhapatnam (Waltair)— Rao & Ganapati (1968a); LAKSHADWEEP: Agatti, Bangaram—Rao (1991); ODISHA: Puri, Konark—Rao & Ganapati (1968a); Rao (1989); WEST BENGAL: Medinipur—Sanyal et al. (2012); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).

Habitat. Marine, littoral; medium sand, 10–30 cm below surface near mid-water level.

Distribution. This species has been reported only from India (Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea).

Remarks. Nomenclature and functional role of the accessory reproductive organs as indicated for the Indian specimens should be revised in light of the recent literature (e.g., Kieneke & Schmidt-Rhaesa 2015).

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