Volume 25, Issue 75, January - June, 2024

First Report of Hesione paulayi Salazar-Vallejo, 2018 (Phyllodocida: Hesionidae) from the Indian Ocean with a Note and key to identification of Indian waters species of the genus Hesione Lamarck, 1818

Jyoshna Pradhan, Balakrishnan S^♦

Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha, West Bengal 721428, India

^♦Corresponding author
Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha, West Bengal 721428, India

ABSTRACT

The present paper on Hesionid polychaete Hesione paulayi Salazar-Vellejo, 2018 is reported from India for the first time and the specimen was collected from Kavaravati, Lakshadweep. The diagnostic characters include the presence of numerous dorsal discontinuous longitudinal bands; prostomium curved; dorsal cirriphore twice; large acicula blackish and acicular lobe double; absence of palp; neurochaetal blades bidentate and parapodia with dorsal cirri. The genus inhabits soft and hard bottoms, in intertidal and infra coastal zones of the Indian coast. A key to Hesione species from India is also included.

Keywords: Hesionid, Pigmentation pattern, Taxonomy, New Record, India

Species, 2024, 25(75), e4s1623

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e4s1623

Published: 03 February 2024