Grandidierella gravipes K.H. Barnard, 1935

Grandidierella gravipes K.H. Barnard, 1935 View in CoL

Grandidierella gravipes Barnard, 1935: 297 View in CoL , fig. 18.

Grandidierella megnae View in CoL — Chilton, 1925: 535, fig. 2.—Schellenbuerg, 1925 166, fig. 7 [non Grandidierella megnae ( Giles, 1890) View in CoL ].

Grandidierella gravipes View in CoL — Asari & Myers, 1982: 245, figs 5–6.

Diagnosis. Male pereon without ventral processes. Male gnathopod 1 carpus and propodus subequal, posterior margin with single tooth and hook shape uropod 3 rami.

Remarks. Barnard (1935) described this species on the basis of specimens collected from Vembanad Lake and Mundattalkari, Kerala, India. Barnard (1935) synonymized G. megnae reported by Chilton (1925) from Thailand with the G. gravipes . Barnard (1935) also added G. megnae reported by Schellenberg (1925) from Cameroon, in the synonym list of G. gravipes . However, Barnard (1935) stated that while the Cameroon specimen examined by Schellenberg (1925) represents a new species, it remains uncertain whether it is truly conspecific with G. magnae .

Distribution. Cameroon ( Schellenberg 1925); Tale Sap, Siam, Thailand ( Chilton 1925); India ( Barnard 1935). In India, the species is reported from Kerala ( Barnard 1935; Surya Rao 1972; Dev Roy et al. 2009) and Tamil Nadu ( Asari & Myers 1982; Lyla et al. 1998; Thilagavathi et al. 2013; Azhagu 2017).