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Comparative taxonomic evaluation of <i>Thais </i> species (Order: Gastropoda; Family: Muricidae) of Mollusca from Maharashtra coast of India

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Title Comparative taxonomic evaluation of Thais species (Order: Gastropoda; Family: Muricidae) of Mollusca from Maharashtra coast of India
 
Creator Kumar, Ravi
Jaiswar, A.K.
Jahageerdar, S.
Chakraborty, S.K.
Kumar, A. Pavan
Prasad, Laxmi
 
Subject Thais
Muricidae
Gastropods
Mollusca
Radular
 
Description 1098-1104
Based on shell morphology alone, it was difficult to differentiate the species belonging to genus Thais because of large amount of plasticity, observed in the shell characters. The colour of the shells was poorly defined as species identifying character in Thais species. The morphometric and meristic characters of the shell along with radular characters can solve the taxonomic ambiguities in Thais species (Thais lacera; T. blanfordi; T. tissoti; T. rudolphi; T. bufo and T. subnodulosa). The radular morphology was found to be different in each species except in T. rudolphi and T. blanfordi and hence these two species were differentiated based on radular morphology where the first denticle on outer base of the lateral cusp was smaller than other five denticles in T. rudolphi but in T. blanfordi, all were same in size. A deep ‘V’ shaped notch was present between inner denticle base of lateral cusp and central cusp in T. blanfordi, which was found to be a species specific character.
 
Date 2017-05-29T10:34:38Z
2017-05-29T10:34:38Z
2017-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/42018
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.46(06) [June 2017]