Paraleptomesochra wellsi Rao, 1972

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Paraleptomesochra wellsi Rao, 1972

Original description. Rao (1972): Fig. 4 .

Type locality. India, Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam (formerly Waltair), 17°43’30”N 83°20’30”E; intertidal zone, fine and medium sand, 10–30 cm below surface near half-tide level .

Notes. Rao (1972) describes the male antennule as 7-segmented with the sixth segment being partly subdivided. The segmentation pattern is here provisionally reinterpreted as 9-segmented due to segment 4 ( XIII) having been overlooked and the three segments distal to the geniculated accepted here as fully discrete. Rao’s (1972: Fig. 4D ) illustration of two aesthetascs originating from the swollen segment 5 must be attributed to an observational error.

The species was subsequently recorded from two localities (Konark = Konarak, Puri) in Odisha (formerly Orissa) in the Bay of Bengal ( Rao 1989) .

Figures

FIGURE 4. Johnwellsia bipartita gen. et sp. nov. (♀): A, P3, anterior; B, P4, anterior (praecoxa omitted); C, P5, anterior.