New record of Bar-toothed Nereid, <i>Perinereis nuntia</i> (Lamarck, 1818) from the coastal waters of West Bengal, India
The present paper deals with Bar-toothed nereid, Perinereis nuntia (Lamarck, 1818), a first record from the state of West Bengal, India, based on 21 specimens collected from the Digha coast. This marine worm’s morphological characteristics, such as paragnaths and setae arrangements, jaw structure, and head morphology, agree well with those of the previous original description and the number of paragnaths of the proboscis. The present study contributes to the knowledge of Indian polychaete, providing taxonomic descriptions of this species with detailed accounts of their distribution.
Authors
- Prasad Chandra Tudu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0747-755X)
- Cuckoo Mahapatra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2484-7324)
- S. Balakrishnan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-4421)
- Jyoshna Pradhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1174-6142)
Institutions
- Zoological Survey of India (IN)
- Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Records of the Zoological Survey of India
- Published
- 2024-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v124/i1/2024/172436
- Primary Topic
- Marine and fisheries research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00