Mysidopsis indica W.M. Tattersall, 1922

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, Zootaxa 5244 (3), pp. 201-232 : 211

Mysidopsis indica W.M. Tattersall, 1922

Type locality. Andaman Islands (W.M. Tattersall 1922) .

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

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

Distribution. This species is distributed from The Gulf of Manaar, India (W.M. Tattersall 1922), Indonesia ( Ii 1964), South China Sea ( Liu & Wang 1986) to the Andaman Sea ( Fukuoka & Murano 2002).

Remarks. The species M. indica shares a similar appearance with M. hellvillensis , but, both of them can be identified as follows; in M. indica (1) telson armed with two small spines on each side of the base and two pairs of minute spines on the narrow truncate apex, small median emargination, (2) uropodal endopod with one spine near the statocyst, and (3) three median dorsal nodules on the carapace, while in M. hellvillensis , (1) telson with two strong spines on each side of base followed by an unarmed gap, a small spine, another gap and a close graduated row of spines along the distal region and around the apex, where they are very long, (2) uropodal endopod armed from statocyst to apex with a close row of spines in series, and (3) no nodules on the carapace (O.S. Tattersall 1969).