Check List 20(4): 940-949, doi: 10.15560/20.4.940
First record of Leodice uschakovi (Wu, Sun & Liu, 2013) (Eunicidae, Polychaete) in Gulf of Mannar, southeast coast of India
Sasmita Swain‡, Thais Kananda da Silva Souza§, Joana Zanol§, Perumal Murugesan‡‡ Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India§ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Corresponding author: Perumal Murugesan ( pmurugesaan74@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Andrew Davinack © Sasmita Swain, Thais Kananda da Silva Souza, Joana Zanol, Perumal Murugesan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Swain S, Souza TKS, Zanol J, Murugesan P (2024) First record of Leodice uschakovi (Wu, Sun & Liu, 2013) (Eunicidae, Polychaete) in Gulf of Mannar, southeast coast of India. Check List 20(4): 940-949. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.940 |  |
Abstract
We record the polychaete species Leodice uschakovi (Wu, Sun & Liu, 2013) for the first time from the two islands of Gulf of Mannar, India. Our find significantly expands the species’ geographic range, as it was previously documented only from waters of Hainan Island, southern China, and El Nido, Philippines. A large number of samples was collected, many more than by previous investigations, from dead corals. We provide detailed morphological data, including some previously overlooked key characters, as well as molecular data and intraspecific characters within the species.
Keywords
Intraspecific variation, Musal Tivu, new record, polychaete, Pumurichan Tivu