Paradasys littoralis 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

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5943762

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Paradasys littoralis Rao & Ganapati, 1968
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Records from India. ANDHRA PRADESH: Visakhapatnam (Waltair), Scandal point—Rao & Ganapati (1968a); ODISHA: Puri—Rao (1989); KERALA: Fort Kochi , Neendakara, Karunagapally—Govindankutty & Nair (1967) ; WEST BENGAL: Medinipur, South 24 Parganas—Sanyal et al. (2012); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).

Habitat. Marine, intertidal; coarse & medium sand, 10–20 cm below surface, between low and mid tide levels.

Distribution. Known only form India.

Remarks. Additional information on this species is desirable as the current description of the male apparatus (e.g., Fig. 13 Naidu & Rao 2004) departs from other species of the genus (e.g., Remane 1934).

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