Dichromadora cuculata Lorenzen, 1973

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 : 288

12. Dichromadora cuculata Lorenzen, 1973

1973. Dichromadora cuculata Lorenzen. Inst. Meeresforsch. Breemerh. 14: 127 - 130.

1988. Dichromadora cuculata Platt and Warwick. Synopses of the British Fauna No.38. P.160, Figure 69.

Material examined: 4 ♂, (Reg. No. N. 244) Yanam,

22.vi.2014, Coll. G. Sivaleela.

Diagnostic characters: This species represented by the lateral differentiation of the cuticle in the form of two longitudinal files of enlarged dots.

Distribution: S.P.Pattinam,( Sivaleela, 2016); Manginapudi - Andhra Pradesh ( Sivaleela, 2016). Elsewhere: Firth of Clyde, West Scotland.

Remarks: This specimen agrees well with the earlier description of Warwick et al., 1998 by its cuticle, Amphid oval. Cephalic setae numbers four 3µm. The spicule size 17 µm and differ in cephalic setae numbers are also treated for distinguishing this species from other species of Dichromadora .