Abstract
The present paper reports the occurrence of twenty species of marine interstitital Copepoda from the beach sands of Waltair coast. Half of these are recorded for the first time from Indian waters. The males of some of the species are described for the first time. A new subspecies has also been created.
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Chandrasekhara Rao, G., Ganapati, P.N. On some interstitial copepods from the beach sands of waltair coast. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 70, 262–286 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03052153
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