New distributional records of free-living marine nematodes from Indian waters I. Chromadorids

756-765<span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Totally 192 species of free-living marine nematodes were identified in the southeast continental shelf of India during Cruise no. 260 of “FORV <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sagar Samada”. Among these free-living marine nematodes following nine of these Chromadorids species: Comesa cuanensis,<span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US"> Chromaspirina inglisi, Chromaspirina parapontica, Desmadora (Desmadora) schulzi, Metachromadora (Bradylaimus) suecica, Pseudonchus northumbriensis, Epsilonema pustulatum, Draconema claparedii and Tricoma longirostris which happen to be first record from Indian waters are described.