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Acanthomysis platycauda

Description

Acanthomysis platycauda (Pillai, 1964)

= Lycomysis platycauda Pillai, 1964

Type locality. Arabian Sea (Pillai 1964).

Record from Thailand. South-eastern Andaman Sea, next to Phuket Island (Fukuoka & Murano 2002).

Habitat and depth range. Marine, depth: 19–43 m (Fukuoka & Murano 2002).

Distribution. A. platycauda is distributed from India (Pillai 1964; 1973; Biju & Panampunnayil 2009), South China Sea (Liu & Wang 1986) Andaman Sea (Fukuoka & Murano 2002) to Malaysia (Gan et al. 2010; Tan & Azman 2018)

Remarks. The main characteristics of this species are that the anterolateral corners of the carapace are rounded and the apical spiniform setae of the male fourth pleopod exopods are unequal in length and naked on the distal portion (Fukuoka & Murano 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Yolanda, Rofiza, Ambarwati, Reni, Rahayu, Dwi Anggorowati, Budijastuti, Widowati, Fitrihidajati, Herlina, Kuntjoro, Sunu, Rachmadiarti, Fida & Purnomo, Tarzan, 2023, An annotated checklist of the species of Lopogastrida and Mysida (Crustacea Peracarida) from Thailand and its adjacent waters, pp. 201-232 in Zootaxa 5244 (3) on page 215, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7656267

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References

  • Pillai, N. K. (1964) Report on the Mysidacea in the collections of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Mandapam Camp, South India - Part 1. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 6 (1), 1 - 41.
  • Fukuoka, K. & Murano, M. (2002) Mysidacea (Crustacea) from the south-eastern Andaman Sea with descriptions of six new species. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication, 23 (1), 53 - 108.
  • Pillai, N. K. (1973) Mysidacea of the Indian Ocean. Handbook to the International Zooplankton Collections, 4, 1 - 125.
  • Biju, A. & Panampunnayil, S. U. (2009) Mysids (Crustacea) from the shallow waters off Maharashtra and south Gujarat, India, with description of a new species. Marine Biology Research, 5 (4), 345 - 362. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 17451000802454890
  • Liu, R. & Wang, S. (1986) Studies on Mysinae (Crustacea Mysidacea) of the northern South China Sea. Studia Marina Sinica, 26, 159 - 202. [in Chinese]
  • Gan, S. Y., Azman, B. A. R., Yoshida, T., Majid, A. M., Toda, T., Takahashi, K. & Othman, B. H. R. (2010) Comparison of day and night mysid assemblages in a seagrass bed by using emergence traps, with key to species occurring at Pulau Tinggi Malaysia. Coastal Marine Science, 34 (1), 74 - 81.
  • Tan, H. S. & Azman, B. A. R. (2018) Diversity of coastal mysids from Pulau Tinggi, Sultan Iskandar Marine Park, Malaysia. Nauplius, 26 (e 2018037), 1 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 2358 - 2936 e 2018037