Beroe ovata Bruguière, 1789
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Beroe ovata Bruguière, 1789 |
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4. Beroe ovata Bruguière, 1789
1789. Beroe ovata Bruguière, J. G. Histoire naturelle des vers. Chez Panckoucke.
1860. Idyiopsis affinis Agassiz, L. Contrib. Nat. His. U.S.A. 3: 301.
Material examined: WN-CTEN-003; 2 specimens. Thakuran Channel: Surface water (21°39' 18" N, 88° 28'
13.9" E), Sundarbans , West Bengal, India, 20.1.2018. Coll. Jasmine P. and Party.
Description: Body appears like bell-shaped, elongated, cylindrical, slightly flattened, gradually tapering in a semicircular arc towards the aboral pole. Eight meridional canals associated with many diverticulae, forming a network. The wide side of four meridional canals is joined to paragastric canal via oral forks. The comb plates originating from the aboral pole end midway before reaching the oral pole. A narrow band of macrocilia situated inside the lips or oral portion. Body is pinkish, reddish brown or whitish in colour ( Moser, 1903).
Diagnosis: Specimen oral diameter 1.5 cm, length
2.2 cm from oral to aboral end and width of 1.9 cm ( Figure 2d View Figure 2 ).
Distribution: Indian waters (Ramakrishna & Sarkar.
1998). Elsewhere: Black Sea ( Arashkevich, 2001; Finenko et al., 2003), Atlantic Ocean ( Mayer, 1912), coastal waters of the United States and Canada, Gulf of Mexico ( Bayha 2006), Caspian Sea ( Kideys et al., 2004) , Mediterranean Sea (Mills. 1996) , Northern Adriatic Sea ( Shiganova & Malej, 2008) .
Remark: The specimen has shrunk in size due to preservation in formaldehyde.
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