Agarna bengalensis Kumari, Rao & Shaymasundari, 1990

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G., 2019, A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India, Zootaxa 4622 (1), pp. 1-99 : 79

Agarna bengalensis Kumari, Rao & Shaymasundari, 1990

Agarna bengalensis Kumari, Rao & Shaymasundari, 1990: 27 –30, figs 1–3.

Type and type locality. Kumari et al. (1990) collected specimens from Waltair Coast, Andhra Pradesh, India. The authors reported that the holotype male is deposited in the Indian Museum but the detail of the accession number is not available in the original description. The present museum inquiries, at the Indian museum, failed to recover any material for A. bengalensis and it seems that the types were either not submitted or it was lost.

Remarks. Agarna bengalensis Kumari, Rao & Shaymasundari, 1990 was described from Waltair Coast, Andhra Pradesh, India without a host identity. Unfortunately, the original description of this species was very poor and incomplete based on male specimen. Within the Cymothoidae , both generic and species diagnoses are dependent on adult female characters. It is prudent at this stage, therefore, to place Agarna bengalensis Kumari, Rao & Shaymasundari, 1990 into species inquirenda.