Macrodasys waltairensis 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 : 499

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scientific name	Macrodasys waltairensis Rao & Ganapati, 1968
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Macrodasys waltairensis Rao & Ganapati, 1968 View in CoL

Records from India. ANDHRA PRADESH: Visakhapatnam (Waltair)— Rao & Ganapati (1968a); ODISHA (Orissa): Gopalpur—Rao (1969); WEST BENGAL: Medinipur,— Sanyal et al. (2012); GENERAL RECORD: Naidu & Rao (2004).

Habitat. Marine; coarse sand with shell gravel, at a depth 30 cm near low water level.

Distribution. Species so far known only from India (Bay of Bengal).

Remarks. The proper name is Macrodasys waltairensis , and not M. waltaironsis , as occurs in Fig. 7 of the original description (see Rao & Ganapati 1968a).