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<emphasis id="2FC5EAEEFFF6FFABFF51D788E5D0FB71" bold="true" box="[151,400,1168,1194]" pageId="53" pageNumber="289">Original description.</emphasis>
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: 297300; Text-fig. 54.
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The species differs from its congener
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221), P2P4 enp-3 (one apical element
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two) and the endopodal lobe of the male P5 (two setae
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one). Additional differences include the caudal ramus which is slightly longer than wide in
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(
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as long as wide), the length of P1 enp-2 which is longer in
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(and the position of its inner seta being more proximal), the morphology of the setae on P1 exp-2 and the inner distal seta of P2P4 exp-3 which are characterized by a row of stiff pinnules near the apex in
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, and the shape of the male P5 exopod (trapezoid
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oval).
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:Text-fig. 54F)shows three setae on the mandibular basis with the two proximal ones at a considerable distance from the distal one. It is conceivable that the short proximal “setae” are ornamentation elements similar to those described and figured by
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:
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, 8A) for
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.
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F) illustrated similar (but more) setules in his description of
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in addition to two distal setae.
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also described the mandibular endopod as 2-segmented but this is unlikely; the exopod is apparently lacking but represented by a seta in
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. The absence of the seta on the maxillipedal syncoxa (present in
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) requires confirmation.
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Although
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from mainland
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and
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attributed their material from the
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(Middle and South Andaman, Car Nicobar Island) to the geographically much more distant
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</taxonomicName>
. The latter was subsequently recorded from the littoral zone of
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(formerly known as the
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, Minicoy and Aminidivi Islands) (
<bibRefCitation id="79204B0DFFF6FFABFB56D400E124F8E9" author="Rao, G. C. &amp; Misra, A." box="[1168,1380,1816,1842]" pageId="53" pageNumber="289" pagination="51 - 68" refId="ref77882" refString="Rao, G. C. &amp; Misra, A. (1983) Meiofauna from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean. Cahiers de Biologie marine, 24, 51 - 68." type="journal article" year="1983">Rao &amp; Misra 1983</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="79204B0DFFF6FFABFAA9D401E490F88D" author="Rao, G. C." pageId="53" pageNumber="289" pagination="41 - 135" refId="ref77803" refString="Rao, G. C. (1991) Meiofauna. In: Jairajpuri, M. S. (Ed.), Fauna of Lakshadweep. State Fauna Series, 2. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 41 - 135." type="book chapter" year="1991">Rao 1991</bibRefCitation>
) and Little Andaman (
<bibRefCitation id="79204B0DFFF6FFABFE0BD424E67EF88D" author="Rao, G. C." box="[461,574,1852,1878]" pageId="53" pageNumber="289" pagination="1 - 120" refId="ref77850" refString="Rao, G. C. (1993) Littoral meiofauna of Little Andaman. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Papers, 155, 1 - 120." type="journal article" year="1993">Rao 1993</bibRefCitation>
).
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