Kuwaita heteropoda ( Marenzeller, 1879 )

Siddique, Alfisa, Purushothaman, Jasmine, Bhowal, Aishee & Mandal, Sumit, 2021, Distribution and diversity of Polychaeta (Phylum: Annelida) in the Northern coastal waters of Bay of Bengal, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (4), pp. 453-463 : 454

2. Kuwaita heteropoda ( Marenzeller, 1879)

1879. Lumbriconereis heteropoda Marenzeller, Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss, Math. Naturwiss. Kl. Wien. , 41 (2): 138, pl. I–VI.

2002. Kuwaita heteropoda Carrera-Parra & Orensanz, Zoosystema , 24 (2): 278.

Diagnosis: Body about 10-20 cm in length. Coneshaped prostomium with three small antennae lacking palps, tentacles and eyes. Simple multidentate hooded hooks, anterior setigers with long hood, and posterior setigers with short hoods along with well-defined proximal and distal teeth. Posterior setigers contain very small nephridial papillae; branchiae are reduced in posterior parapodia; maxillary apparatus with five pairs of maxillae, MIII bidentate with distal tooth bigger than proximal one. Absence of dorsal and ventral cirri. Parapodia with two dissimilar lobes ( Rao, 2001; Carrera-Parra & Orensanz, 2002; Arias & Carrera-Parra, 2014).

Distribution: India - West coast of India from Cape Comorin to Dwarka ( Joydas & Damodaran, 2009), Trivandrum, Chennai, Nellore, Machilipatnam ( Musale & Desai, 2011), Thondi, Palk Bay ( Anbuchezhian et al., 2012). World – Singapore ( Fauvel, 1932), Yellow Sea ( Treadwell, 1936), Southern Sakhalin ( Annenkova, 1937), Vietnam ( Fauvel, 1939), Japan ( Marenzeller, 1879), Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Gulf ( Wehe & Fiege, 2002).