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).