Daptonema furcatum (Juario, 1974)

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 : 297

32. Daptonema furcatum (Juario, 1974) *

( Figure 19 A-C)

1974. Pseudotheritus furcatus Juario, Bremenk. 14: 287.

Material examined: 1♂, (Reg.No.N.374), Mangamaripeta,

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

Diagnostic characters: This species is characterized by the presence of its conical-cylindrical tail with terminal setae,

relative length of setation, size and position of amphid shape and length of the tail to distinguish the species.

Description: Body length is 0.5 mm. Cephalic setae are 7 µm in length. Amphids are 11µm wide. Tail is 4 a.b.d long and conico-cylindrical. Spicules are 24 µm in length and gubernaculum single between spicules.

Distribution: Upper, Palk Bay ( Sivaleela, 2016). Elsewhere: Northeast coast of England.

Remarks: The species is examined well with the earlier description of Warwick et al. (1998) by the form of the tail (conical without terminal setae), size and position of amphid, structure of spicule.

Figures

Figure 19. Epsilonema pustulatum.